Meeting with Maja Komorowska | Poland
Guest: Maja Komorowska
Moderators: Tomasz Domagała, Tomasz Rodowicz
Date: August 30, 2026 | Sunday
Time: 12 pm
Place: Glass Hall, Art Factory in Łódź, 3 Tymienieckiego Street
Admission: Free
Duration: 90 minutes
Age restrictions: None
Language: Polish
DESCRIPTION OF THE MEETING
We invite you for an extraordinary meeting with a theater and film actress, teacher, and professor at the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Warsaw - Maja Komorowska. During her career, she has cooperated with many prominent theater directors and major film directors. During the meeting, we will listen to stories about great figures of the Polish theatre and film scene, the process of building a role, about working with young actors, and, above all, let us get to know Maja Komorowska - a charismatic personality of Polish acting.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTIST
Maja Komorowska - (née Maria Tyszkiewicz) born on December 23, 1937 in Warsaw. Theater and film actress, and teacher. Professor at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Warsaw; associated with this school since 1983. In 1960 she graduated from the Acting Department (Puppetry Department) of the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków. In 1963, she passed an extramural actor's examination. She made her debut in 1960 at the Groteska Theatre in Krakow, where she worked in the 1960/61 season. In the seasons from 1961/62 to 1967/68 she belonged to the group of the 13 Rzędów Theatre in Opole - transformed in 1962 into Laboratorium Theatre with headquarters in Wrocław from 1965 - under the direction of Jerzy Grotowski. After seven years of working in the theatre of Jerzy Grotowski, she joined the team of Współczesny Theatre in Wrocław and acted as its actress in the 1968/69 and 1969/70 seasons, and later in the 1970/71 and 1971/72 seasons of the Polski Theatre in Wrocław. From 1972, she worked in the team of the Współczesny Theatre in Warsaw.
She has worked with many prominent theater directors: Erwin Axer, Maciej Englert, Jerzy Grotowski, Jerzy Jarocki, Helmut Kajzar, Jerzy Krasowski, Krystyna Skuszanka, Bohdan Korzeniewski, Krystian Lupa, Krzysztof Warlikowski, and cinematographers: Krzysztof Kieślowski, Tadeusz Konwicki, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussim, Edward Żebrowski and others. She played in Polish and foreign films. She created over 30 significant roles in television theater performances. She plays in the shows: “Despite everything” by J. Murrell directed by Waldemar Śmigasiewicz at the Współczesny Theatre and in “Happy Days” by S. Beckett directed by Antoni Libera at the Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw.
She received many Polish and foreign awards for outstanding acting creations, including the Great Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011), and the French Commander's insignia of the Order of Arts and Letters (2010) awarded by the French Embassy. Involved in social affairs, during the martial law period she worked in the Primate's Social Council and in the Committee for Assistance of the Interned and their Families, later in S.O.S with Jacek Kuroń. She is a member of the Oncology Hospice Council.
In 1993, Maja Komorowska published a book entitled “31 days of May" (Tenten Publishing House), in 2004 “Landscape” - talks with Barbara Osterloff and Maja Komorowska (Errata Publishing House), in 2014 “Neverending questions”, a book written with Tadeusz Sobolewski (Mazovia Institute of Culture and Publishing House Czuły Barbarzyńca Press), and in 2017 “Landscape. Conversations with Maja Komorowska, old and new” Barbara Ostrloff (Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute).
