Korczakowska, Natalia

She made her debut in Pension Madrid, a spectacle commissioned by the Czarne publishing house, staged at the M25 Club in Warsaw. A music school graduate, she has written texts to songs for Muzykoterapia and Emade, and has staged a music spectacle entitled The Leash (with Bartek Porczyk). She was assistant director to René Pollesch on the show Ragazzo dell’Europa. She has staged her most famous productions at TR Warszawa (Michał Bajer’s War Zone and Solaris. A Report after Stanisław Lem), Wałbrzych’s Dramatyczny Theatre (Nelly after Dostoyevsky’s Humiliated and Insulted and Dynasty. Sclerosis multiplex), Wrocław’s Współczesny Theatre (Zofia Posmysz’s The Passenger), Jelenia Góra’s Norwid Theatre (Marta Sikorska-Miszczuk’s Death of the Squirrel-Man, Euripides’s Electra), Szczecin’s Współczesny Theatre (The Pelican, or Farewell to the Meat after Strindberg), Gdańsk’s Wybrzeże Theatre (Stefan Żeromski’s The Spring to Come), Warsaw’s Narodowy Theatre (Michał Bajer’s Verklärte Nacht, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Nathan the Wise) and at the Grand Theatre – National Opera in Warsaw (Wolfgang Rihm’s Jakob Lenz and the enthusiastically received Halka, a collaboration with Marc Minkowski).

Natalia Korczakowska has won awards notably for directing Solaris. A Report after Stanisław Lem at the 13th Interpretations Festival and for her adaptation of Stefan Żeromski’s The Spring to Come at the Live Classics Competition.