[4] Cywińska worked as a theatre director at theaters in Białystok, Warsaw and Nowa Huta.

As a consequence, she was interned for several months during the period of martial law[7] (Włodzimierz Braniecki was the co-author of the screenplay).

[8] In 2008,[9] after the death of Gustaw Holoubek,[10] she took over the duties of the artistic director at the Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw.

[6] From 12 September 1989 to 12 January 1991, she served as Minister of Culture and Art in the Cabinet of Tadeusz Mazowiecki.

[11][12] She became a member of the Support Committee of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.