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 from the Institute of Literary Theory, Theatre and Audiovisual Arts at the University of Łódź and, as a puppeteer and animator, from the Puppetry Department in Białystok of the Theatre Academy in Warsaw. She also completed postgraduate studies in education at the Kujawy and Pomorze University, in management at the University of Warsaw and in voice production at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. She is now a fifth-year student at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in the Adults to Art programme (Open Academy), working in the drawing and painting studio.
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).
