Michał Zadara

Michał Zadara (born 1976, Poland) is a director, set designer, independent filmmaker and video installation artist. He spent his childhood and early youth outside Poland. In 1999, he graduated with honours from Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, where with Emily Salzfass he directed his first theatre production, Cabaret: An Original Work Sponsored by No One. In 2005, he graduated in directing from the PWST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków. He has worked at the Wybrzeże Theatre in Gdańsk (From Poland with Love, Demirski’s Wałęsa: A Cheerful Story and Hence a Very Sad One), the National Old Theatre in Kraków (Słowacki’s Father Marek, Kochanowski’s The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys, Demirski’s, Zadara’s Iphigenia: A New Tragedy (based on Racine’s version)), the Współczesny Theatre in Szczecin (Some Like It Hot, Dürrenmatt’s The Visit, Fredro’s A Night in the Apennines), the Contemporary Theatre in Wrocław (Tadeusz Różewicz’s The Card Index), the National Theatre Opera in Warsaw (Molnár’s The Paul Street Boys, Norwid’s The Actor, Schiller’s The Robbers), the Capitol Musical Theatre in Wrocław (Gombrowicz’s Operetta), the National Theatre Opera in Warsaw (Xenakis’ Orestea), the Polish Theatre in Bydgoszcz (Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby, Witkacy’s The Crazy Locomotive), the New Theatre in Łódź (Joseph Roth’s Hotel Savoy), the Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw (Słowacki’s Fantazy and Lilla Weneda) and the Polski Theatre in Wrocław (where he staged, for the first time in the history of Polish theatre, an unabridged version of Forefathers’ Eve). He also collaborates with international theatres, including the Habima National Theatre in Tel Aviv, Schauspielhaus Wien and the Komische Oper Berlin. Michał Zadara is the originator and co-founder of Centrala, a theatre company without a home (Chopin without a Piano, 10 Political Songs, Marian Falski’s Alphabet Book). He is the recipient of multiple awards, such as Polityka’s Passport for theatre, the Cyprian Kamil Norwid Award and the Konrad Swinarski Award.