Wiśniewska, Barbara
A graduate of the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, where she now teaches, she also pursued cultural studies at the Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw. Her accolades include the scholarship of the Ministry of Science and High Education for outstanding academic achievements (twice) and the Zbigniew Krawczykowski Award. She gained experience working with Katie Mitchell, Christopher Alden, and Ushio Amagatsu. She collaborated with Mariusz Treliński as assistant director and directed many revivals of his spectacles at the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera, El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Theater an der Wien, and Prague’s National Theatre (2012–22). She made her opera debut with a production of The Supposed Miracle or Cracovians and Highlanders at Wrocław Opera (2017).Her recent major projects include Die Fledermaus at the Berlin Opernfest (2022), Il Trovatore at Szczecin’s Opera at the Castle (2023), The Flying Dutchman (2023) and St Luke Passion (2025) at Sopot’s Forest Opera at the Baltic Opera Festival. Her first drama theatre production was Tennessee Williams’ Baby Doll, winner of a competition for a debut at Warsaw’s Studio Theatre (2015). Since then, she has directed theatre productions, concerts, festival spectacles, and performative reading events at repertory theatres in Poland and abroad.