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Inka Dowlasz (born 25 May 1949) is a Polish theater director, playwright, screenwriter, psychologist and teacher. Dowlasz's theatrical performances were given in theatres in Poland and abroad. From 1972 to 1982 she cooperated with Jerzy Grotowski's "Teatr Laboratorium" on "Theatre of Sources", "University of Nations Theaters“ and "Tree of People", "Initiative – Mountain".
Dowlasz was born and brought up in Szczecin, Poland, the daughter of Weronika and Grzegorz Dowlasz, widely regarded as the first founders of home for orphanages in Poland. Dowlasz's father was a writer and Armia Krajowa ( Home Army) soldier.
In 1968 Dowlasz began to study psychology at Jagiellonian University and at Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts, finishing with a PhD degree. During her studies she worked on techniques for building a role.
Since 1990 permanently connected with Ludowy Theatre in Kraków. She performed with Contact Theater in Manchester, in Teatr Polski and Teatr Współczesny in Szczecin, Teatr im. Siemaszkowej in Rzeszów, Teatr im. Jaracza in Łodz and Stary Teatr im. Modrzejewskiej in Kraków, (In this the Crucible by Arthur Millera and The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe). In 1998 Dowlasz founded Improwizacjon Studio and in 2000 Therapy by Art Studio.
Dowlasz is a member of the board of directors of the "Association of Innovation in Science and Culture" and "Union of Artists of the Polish Scene in Warsaw" and is also a member of "Association Unicorn".
Cardinal Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J., was Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Lusaka in Zambia.
Leon Schiller or Leon Schiller de Schildenfeld was a Polish theatre and film director, as well as critic and theatre theoretician. He also wrote theatre and radio screenplays and composed music. He was born in Kraków under the Austrian rule during the foreign Partitions of Poland, to a family of Jewish and Austrian origin that had been ennobled by Empress Maria Theresa.
Lidia Zamkow (1918–1982) was a Polish theatre actress and director.
Michał Zadara is a Polish theatre director and set designer. He has worked in almost every major city in Poland, and outside of Poland in Berlin, Vienna, Tel Aviv, New York and Philadelphia. He studied at the American International School of Vienna, and at Swarthmore College. He is best known for his faithful, yet vivid stagings of classic plays. He is the first director to have ever staged Adam Mickiewicz's masterpiece Dziady (poem) in its entirety.
The Ludowy Theatre in Kraków, located at Osiedle Teatralne housing development in district Nowa Huta, opened on 3 December 1955. At that time in the Polish People's Republic, the official policy of socialist realism in art and social life came to an end and de-Stalinization was taking place, heading for its culmination in the events of Polish October. The Ludowy quickly became known as the city's prime avant-garde stage thanks to collaboration of eminent artists, including the theatre theoretician and painter Józef Szajna, Tadeusz Kantor, Lidia Zamkow, Krystyna Zachwatowicz, and others.
Małgorzata Zajączkowska, also known as Margaret Sophie Stein, is a Polish actress. Beginning in 1979, she acted on stage in the Teatr Narodowy. In 1981, Zajączkowska moved to the United States and, adopting the stage name Margaret Sophie Stein, continued her acting career in television and film. She played Corvina Lang in the ABC daytime soap opera, All My Children from 1994 to 1995, and appeared in movies include Enemies: A Love Story (1989), Bullets Over Broadway (1994) and Simply Irresistible (1999). In 1996, Zajączkowska made her Broadway debut playing Miss Erikson in Present Laughter.
Artur Barciś is a Polish actor and film director. His television appearances include Krzysztof Kieślowski's anthology series Dekalog (1989), the soap opera Aby do świtu... (1992), and Kurierzy ("Couriers"). From 2006 to 2016 he played the lovably neurotic Arkadiusz Czerepach in the comedy series Ranczo.
The Museum of Polish History or the Polish History Museum is a museum and national cultural institute in Warsaw, Poland. The purpose of the museum is to present the most important events in Polish history, with a particular emphasis on Polish traditions of freedom. Since September 2023, the new museum building has been located in the Warsaw Citadel.
Jarosław Adam Kilian, born in Poland in 1962, is a Polish director for theatres, operas and TV, an art historian, and a pedagogue. He is the son of Polish designer Adam Kilian.
Henryk Baranowski was a Polish theatre, opera and film director, actor, stage designer, playwright, screenwriter and poet. He is best known for his starring role in the film Dekalog: One directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, and also appeared as Rosa's brother Josef in Rosa Luxemburg directed by Margarethe von Trotta and as Napoleon in Pan Tadeusz directed by Andrzej Wajda. He directed over 60 theater and opera productions in Europe, Russia and the US and was the Artistic Director of the Teatr Śląski in Katowice in the mid 2000s. He also directed four "television theatre" productions: ...yes I will Yes, For Phaedra (1998), Saint Witch (2003), and Night is the Mother of Day (2004).
Avishay Hadari is an Israeli artist, theatre director, painter and graphic designer.
Magdalena Jadwiga Boczarska is a Polish actress who has appeared in more than 25 feature films since 2001.
Józef Kostecki was a Polish actor. A 1948 graduate of the Theatre Academy of Warsaw, he is best known for his role of Grand Duke Vytautas in Aleksander Ford's Knights of the Teutonic Order.
Stanisław Gronkowski was a Polish actor who performed at the Rhapsodic Theatre and the Old Theatre of Helena Modrzejewska in Kraków.
Marta Mazurek is a Polish film actress. She made her debut role performance in the Gabriela Zapolska's play Ich czworo in 2012 directed for Radio Kraków by Jerzy Stuhr.
The New Theatre in Łódź also known as the Kazimierz Dejmek New Theatre is one of the repertory theatres in Łódź (Poland), established in 1949. The theatre presents a varied programme, including international classic drama, and new plays by contemporary playwrights. In addition to performances at the Nowy Theatre building, the Nowy Theatre tours productions at theatres across the Łódź region, Poland and abroad.
Franciszek Bunsch is a Polish painter and graphic artist, representative of the Kraków school of workshop graphics, specializing in the metaphorical vision of reality. A longtime lecturer and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Son of painter, Adam Bunsch and younger brother of the set designer Ali Bunsch.
Konrad Ksawery Swinarski was a Polish theatrical, television, film and opera director and stage designer.
Urszula Kenar is a Polish theatrical set designer.
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