The meeting with Beata Pozniak will be a part of the opening of the 3rd European drama School’s Workshop STITCHING EUROPE. It will be run by our lecturer and a film/theatre critic, Łukasz Maciejewski. The venue - room 135 building H (Acting Department).

Beata Poźniak, who lives and works in the US, will not only meet the students but will also run an acting masterclass in front of the camera.
Beata Poźniak's life and professional career are very interesting. She was born in Gdańsk in a family of doctors. She spent her childhood in Britain. She finished a high school in Gdańsk and studied acting at the Lodz Film School. Already as a third year student she played Justyna in „Vatzlav” by Mrożek in Wybrzeże Theatre in Gdańsk next to Jerzy Kiszkis. Also as a student she played in Józef Bliziński’s „Pan Damazy” directed by Jerzy Afanasjew. Having graduated she started her acting career at Współczesny Theatre in Warsaw, where she played in Alan Ayckbourn’s „Jak się kochają” next to Wiesław Michnikowski and Zofia Kucówna.

In 1985, she left for the US where she played Marina Oswald in Oliver Stone’s “JFK”. The film which was a nominee for American Academy Awards, resulted in numerous film and television roles which followed. Beata Poźniak is known for playing complicated and controversial characters like a revolutionary in George Lucas’ “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ”, or a doctor in a series „Melrose Place”.

More information about “Stitching Europe” can be found at: http://www.filmschool.lodz.pl/news/1202,zszywanie-europy-juz-od-poniedzialku.html