[3] Born in Warsaw, Zadara left Poland with his parents when he was three years old and moved to Austria, and then to West Germany.
The images and sound from the USG created the visual and musical frame of the performance, as three musicians played the score, using the child's heartbeat as the basic rhythm.
In 2015 with Pew Center support, Swarthmore College brought the North American premiere of Centrala's Chopin Without Piano, created by Zadara and performed by Centrala member Barbara Wysocka, to Philadelphia, with performances at Swarthmore College and FringeArts.
[9] In 2014, Zadara began a three-year-long project at the Teatr Polski in Wrocław to stage the first ever full production of Adam Mickiewicz's epic drama Dziady.
[10] In the 2019/2020 academic year, Zadara was appointed to the position of Cornell Distinguished Visiting Professor at Swarthmore College to teach a course on the contemporary staging of Greek Tragedy in the Theatre and Classics Departments.
[11] On April 24, 2020, his production of Sophocles's Women of Trachis opened at Swarthmore - the staging was widely covered in the press, as the play was performed without an audience and without actors.