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During the second wave of the COVID pandemic, the Polárka Theater created a theater project for school collectives of the second grade of primary schools on distance learning Find Me Remotely, drawing on the principles of forum theater (Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed). The production was transmitted by several cameras to the MS Teams application, in which distance learning took place in most schools. The central theme of the project was distance education itself. In the so-called first playthrough, the main character gradually loses the trust of all her loved ones thanks to a series of her bad decisions. In the second playthrough, the audience tries to change her choices and bring the story to a happier ending. This study traces the creation of the Find Me Remotely project from the point of view of its dramaturg. The dramaturg learns the principles of forum theater thanks to theater teacher and project director Monika Okurková. Together they transform these principles for the needs of the team of actors of the Polárka Theater and the goals of a specific production. The main emphasis of the text is on character building.