Kasia Lech, with a PhD from University College Dublin, is a scholar, actor, storyteller, dramaturg, and puppeteer with twenty years of conservatory and university teaching experience in the UK, Ireland, Poland, and Netherlands. This is enhanced by two decades of applied arts projects and interdisciplinary research collaborations with diverse communities and non-academic organizations worldwide. Her research and creative practice – supported by Polish, British, Irish, and Canadian organizations – explore theatre through practice-based and traditional scholarship and primarily focus on verse, multilingualism, translation, migration, acting training, children theatre, and cross-cultural encounters. These areas bring to the fore the dialogue between historical and contemporary performance practices in the multivoiced world and theatre within it.

Kasia published Dramaturgy of Form: Performing Verse in Contemporary Theatre (Routledge, 2021), which received outstanding reviews for its content, critical quality, and decolonizing scholarship on verse. Her awarded second book Multilingual Dramaturgies: Towards New European Theatre (Palgrave 2024)  was described as "profoundly impactful" in its engagement with how "European theatre performs, understands, and re-imagines difference." Her research on multilingualism, children theatre, and verse drama underpinned her writing of Feminist Imagining in Polish and Ukrainian Theatres co-authored with Ewa Bal (Cambridge University Press, 2025). Kasia was also part of funded research projects on mapping Polish migrant theatre worldwide and on historical and present violence in Polish theatre.

Kasia performed internationally and co-founded Polish Theatre Ireland – a multilingual theatre company based in Dublin. She is an Executive Director at TheTheatreTimes.com, a global theatre portal which seeks to decolonize theatre criticism. TheTheatreTimes.com won the 2024 ATHE-ASTR Award for Excellence in Digital Scholarship from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the American Society for Theatre Research and was the second-place winner of the 2021 Culture Online International Award for “Best Online Project” for its International Online Theatre Festival (IOTF); and received the 2018 Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy from the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA.org). Kasia is an affiliate of metaLAB (at) Harvard & FU Berlin.

Kasia volunteers her expertise in acting, children theatre, multilingualism, and storytelling to Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, Polish Culture NL, and to Stichting Pools Centrum voor Onderwijs en Cultuur Lokomotywa in Amsterdam. She runs monthly Polish-language storytelling activities for children and parents at OBA Oosterdok and facilitate Polish-language drama classes for children in Amsterdam.