About

Alina is a multidisciplinary artist and maker of immersive experiences that bridge physical theatre and art installation. She works with text, spatial audio, and movement.

It all started when she was 5, bored with adult conversation at dinner. She was handed a pen and a blank piece of paper to draw. Instead, she wrote a poem about a bunny who stepped on his toe and now couldn’t go for a walk. This grew into an impromptu performance, complete with facial contortions to represent 7 levels of pain. Things have escalated since then.

Alina is founding editor of Bracken magazine and a published poet and fiction writer. She now writes for stage and film with her plays being produced on both sides of the Atlantic. Her film pressed/bluebells premiered in Cannes in 2022 and another film Soot Darlings was an official selection of Video Art & Experimental Film Festival (VAEFF), NYC. She was a Dramatist Guild Foundation National Fellowship Finalist (2023-2024). After training with Frantic Assembly, London, she started Verbooom physical theater company. She also wrote for Dragonslayer, an immersive experience directed by Audrey Rachelle (Punchdrunk International) and Alex Oliva (The McKittrick) and directed, wrote for, produced, and was a voice actor for URGE, Verbooom’s inaugural production. Her recent work includes Cabinet of Fathers—an interactive art installation that explores fatherlessness, and WAKE—an immersive experience set at a wake.

Alina sometimes edits other people’s work and helps them get unstuck. See Creative Check-ins.