Hannah Klimas is a third-year PhD candidate in the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Leeds, funded by the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities. She studied German and Russian at the University of St Andrews before completing her MA in Translation Studies at Durham University. Her current research examines the role of the translator in Anglophone staged productions of Russophone theatre. She recently completed a Researcher Employability Project at the National Theatre Archive in London, cataloguing scripts, with a focus on the role of translators in the scriptwriting process. As part of this project, she also wrote an article which was published on the National Theatre website: ‘Archive Unboxed: The House of Bernarda Alba and translation’. She has also worked as a freelance translator, specialising in business, legal and medical translation.