MOSAIC | JOANNA SZCZEPKOWSKA | 19 OCTOBER 2026

Actress, writer, columnist, director, creator of the author's Teatr Na Dole and the online Pudło Theater, which she created during the pandemic and isolation. She has been awarded many times for her acting work. In the years 1981—1988 she was in the acting troupe of the Polish Theatre in Warsaw.

She is the author of the words spoken in “Dziennik Televizyjny”: Please, on June 4, 1989, communism ended in Poland. This phrase became a symbol of change in 1989.

For conspiratorial and patriotic activities, she was awarded the Knight's Cross, the Order of the Rebirth of Poland and the Silver Cross of Merit. In 2021, she was honored with the Konstanty Puzyna Award for her artistic and journalistic activities and for the creation of Teatr Na Dole. Her journalistic texts have been widely echoed in the Polish public debate. In 2025 she was awarded the Gold Medal “Merited to Culture Gloria Artis”.

Author of volumes of short stories “Fragments from the life of the mirror”, “Teo Island”, family saga “Who are you”, “You will win if you lose”, novels “Play Maria”, “I love Paul McCartney, volume of poetry “Street people and other fruits of love”, theater plays: “Naked Baba”, “ADHD and other wonderful phenomena”, “Pelcia or how to live so as not to succeed”, “Socrates”, collections of columns: “Sand from glass”, “How to straighten a circle”, “Second yard”, a series of television miniatures “Women's Wardrobe”.