Anna Bojarska
Actress, singer, theatre scholar and painter. Since January 2018 she has been President of the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation for Culture and National Heritage.
She has more than thirty years of creative work in theatre, film and television behind her. Since childhood she has been connected with Irena Jun’s spoken-word workshops, and for twelve years she worked with the Lalka Theatre in Warsaw. She graduated in theatre theory from the University of Łódź and from the Puppetry Department of the Theatre Academy in Białystok, and is now a student at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
She was Kalina Jędrusik’s artistic protégée and has worked with Wojciech Młynarski, Zygmunt Konieczny and Jerzy Derfel. Her one-woman show “Moja tajemnica”, based on poems by Danuta Wawiłow and performed since 1996, has won awards at festivals in Poland and abroad. Together with Marek Urbański she recreated the puppets of the Powstańczy Teatrzyk Lalkowy (the Uprising Puppet Theatre), which can be seen at the Warsaw Rising Museum.
Since 2019 she has been creating Kredens pod Oknami: for six years at Szklanych Domów 13, and since 2025 at Boremlowska 4. In the Nasi Goście (Our Guests) series she has talked with, among others, Wiesław Ochman, Magdalena Zawadzka, Krzysztof Zanussi, Anna Seniuk, Krystyna Tkacz and Barbara Krafftówna. She came up with the idea for the Masters of Polish Cinema series and is the author of the book “Randia… po polsku drapieżna”.
Volunteer of the Decade, Praga-Południe District (2024). Award of the Marshal of the Mazovian Voivodeship for the Foundation (2025).