Ivana Sokola

Ivana Sokola, born in Hamburg in 1995, studied Scenic Writing at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2020, she was invited to the festival 4+1 - A Meeting of Young Playwrights at Schauspiel Leipzig. In 2021, she was awarded the Kleist Prize for Young Playwrights for her play Kill Baby. Previously, she had already won the special prize of the German Children's and Youth Theater Award with Kill Baby. For her follow-up play Pirsch, she was awarded the Autor:innenpreis of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2022.

Together with Jona Spreter, she forms the author duo Sokola//Spreter.