Partum, Pia

Born in 1977, theatre and opera director. She graduated from the Warsaw University’s College of Interdepartmental Individual Studies in the Humanities and the Directing Department of the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. During her studies she received a French government scholarship to work at the Institut International du Théâtre in Paris, as well as a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture. She was a long-time assistant director to Jerzy Jarocki and Mariusz Treliński. She directed, among others, Puccini’s Madame Butterfly at the Castle Opera in Szczecin, Arthur Kopit’s musical Nine (after Fellini’s film 8 1/2) at the Capitol Theatre in Wrocław, Sándor Márai’s Esther’s Inheritance at the Horzyca Theatre in Toruń, Stanisław Witkiewicz’s Dainty Shapes and Hairy Apes, or The Green Pill at the Norwid Theatre in Jelenia Góra, and lately Tennessee Williams’s The Night of the Iguana at the Wybrzeże Theatre in Gdańsk.