Ada Mukhína (born 1988 in St.Petersburg / lives in Berlin) is a nomadic artist, theatre director, writer and performer. She creates bold political, investigative and participatory theatre performances across genres and borders. With humour and lightness of touch, she questions the existing systems and investigates distribution of resources, risks and power. She holds a Law Diploma with distinction and two Master degrees in Performing Arts from Saint Petersburg Theatre Academy and London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Before moving to Germany, she was the founder of Theatre project Vmeste which team became one of the flagships of Russian socially engaged theatre in 2010s. Her recent theatre pieces, including performance series about risk in arts and artists-at-risk, Risk Lab, How to Sell Yourself To the West and Exile Promenade, have been presented i.a. at the Berliner Festspiele, the Deutsches Theater and Sophiensaele in Berlin, at the Camden People’s Theatre in London, Maison d’artiste en de production Cromot in Paris, Frascati in Amsterdam, and The Gathering by Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics in Washington, DC. She was awarded a Fellowship from the Berlin Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts), a Global Exchange Stipend in South Africa from the Federal State of Berlin, and the German Chancellor Fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.