The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow

Natalia Strzelecka

Theatre is a whimsical phenomenon. Every day I love it and curse it at the same time. It contains everything that I hold dear: possible encounters, freedom, dialogue, adventure, journey into the unknown. I don't think I remember the life ‘before’ theatre any more. Sometimes I still have dreams that I am a construction site manager, I can smell freshly poured concrete, bricks and lime. My old dream returns. The type of excitement remains the same.

Biography

Born in 1976, graduate of the PWSFTviT National Film School in Łódź. Winner of the third prize of the jury at the 18^th Drama School Festival in Łódź for her role as Adela in F.G. Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, and of an award granted by Marshal of the Regional Assembly for the best student of the PWSFTviT National Film School.

The Słowacki Theatre cast her in such plays as: Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot directed by Barbara Sass (2002), Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid directed Giovanni Pampiglione (2002), Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things directed by Barbara Sass (2003), Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain directed by Barbara Sass (2004), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s Iuvenilium permanens directed by Tomasz Wysocki (2004), William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure directed by Helena Kaut-Howson (2005), Maxim Gorky’s Night Shelter – Where Dreams Meet directed by Reinhard Hinzpeter (2006), Jean Genet's The Maids directed by Józef Opalski (2006), Stanisław Wyspiański’s The Wedding directed by Bodolay (2007), Anna Burzyńska’s Tango Piazzolla directed by Józef Opalski (2007), Stanisław Wyspiański’s Liberation directed by Radosław Rychcik (2017), Theatre in Krakow. Prologue directed by Remigiusz Brzyk (2017).

Holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship for the year 2000. In 2002, her role as Louison in The Imaginary Invalid brought her a Ludwik award nomination.

She played in Majciej Wojtyszko’s TV series Doręczyciel [The Delivery Man].