Jacek Poniedziałek

[3] He received his diploma on the basis of his performance in the role of Walter in Robert Musil's Early Drafts for The Man Without Qualities directed by Krystian Lupa.

[4] He was hired by the German director Karin Beier for his staging of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in a theatre in Düsseldorf.

[7] He has also translated a number of stage plays into Polish including Sarah Kane's Cleansed (2001), Hanoch Levin's Krum (2005), Tony Kushner's Angels in America (2007), Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (2010) and Bernard-Marie Koltès's The End (2010).

In the 1980s, he was fascinated by Polish rock band Maanam and at the age of 17, he met and befriended its lead singer Kora.

[9] At high school, he set up an amateur theatre with his friends where they staged Andrzej Bursa's Count Cagliostro's Animals.