MARIA NOWOTARSKA
Maria Nowotarska - actress, director
After completion of her studies in the Cracow National School of Drama, Maria Nowotarska was an actress with the Juliusz Slowacki Theatre. Her CV includes a number of significant roles in both a dramatic and a comedy repertoire. She has worked with distinguished Polish theatre directors, among these E. Axer, K, Braun, K. Dejmek, B. Dabrowski, B. Próchnicka. K. Skuszanka, L. Zamkow, playing such roles as the Harp Player in “The Liberation” (a patriotic play of national significance by St. Wyspiański), Zosia in the comedy “Dames and Hussars”, Aniela in “Maiden Vows”, Maliczewska in “Miss Maliczewska, Elvira in “Don Juan”, Kora in “Novemver Night” (another Polish patriotic epic), Maryna in “The Wedding”, Lia in “Behind the Scenes”, the Countess in “The Marriage of Figaro”, and Fiora in “Fiorenza”.
She also played roles in Polish films, among these: Madame Korczyńska in the Polish classic “Nad Niemnem” (On the banks of the Niemen), Tekla Ostrowska in “Between the Mouth and the Rim of the Wineglass” and Orkan’s Mother in “The Colours of Love”. In the Polish TV Theatre, she starred in several excellent plays, such as “The Barbarians”, “Tartuffe”, “Iwanow”, “The Maple Brothers”, “The Forgotten Devil”, “Mary and Magdalene” and other.
In 1990 she arrived in Canada and, utilizing her great experience, she became the co-creator and animator of theatrical life in Toronto. She is the creator, artistic director, stage adaptation writer and theatrical director, as well as actress of the theatre known as the Salon for Poetry, Music and Theatre of the Polish-Canadian Musical Society. The 2010/2011 artistic season is the twentieth in the life of the Salon, while the number of premieres exceeds one hundred. The Salon has incorporated a whole plethora of the most distinguished Polish poets from Jan Kochanowski to Wisława Szymborska and Jan Twardowski. At the same time, Maria Nowotarska carries on teaching activity in the Actors’ Studio affiliated to the Salon, preparing young Canadians of Polish background to play on stage. Maria Nowotarska can be credited with contributions to Canadian culture, not limited to Polish audiences. Among the poetic performances directed by her is the English language adaptation of “Poets without Borders”, featuring English translations of poems by two Polish literary Nobel Prize laureates, Czesław Miłosz and Wisława Szymborska.
Greatly important part of Salon activity is cycle of plays written by Kazimierz Braun specially for Maria Nowotarska and Agata Pilitowska “Helena Modrzejewska”, “American Dreams, “Tamara L.”, “Radiation – play about the life of of Marie Curie”, “The Tales of Pola Negri”. Thanks to sponsorship of Senat RP the plays are staged in many cities across Canada, United States and Europe. She has received awards from The Adam Mickiewicz Foundation, and the Turzański Foundatio. In 1995 she was named “Woman of the Year” for her artistic work in Canada, in 2000 she was awarded the Cavalier Cross of the Order of Merit from the Government of Poland and in 2004 she was honoured with the title” Merited for Polish Culture”. In 2006, Maria Nowotarska, together with her actress daughter Agata Pilitowska, received the prestigious “Gloria Artis” award from the Government of Poland.
Maria Nowotarska is the recipient of the prestigious Gold Medal from the American Institute of Culture in Miami.
Foundation Jupiter in Vienna, the Senate R.P, and the Polish Embassy have awarded actresses Maria Nowotarska and Agata Pilitowska the Golden Owl for their work in Theatre around the world.
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