Polish theater director, screenwriter, psychologist, university lecturer. Since the 1990s, she has been a regular associate of the People's Theater in Krakow.
She is a graduate of the Psychology Department of the Jagiellonian University (1975) and the Drama Directing Department of the State Higher School of Theater in Krakow (1985; she received her doctorate in theater arts in 2005). During her studies, she began working on role construction techniques, influenced by her inspiration from psychology and experience gained at Jerzy .
Grotowski's Laboratory Theater She has directed plays staged at Teatr Polski and Teatr Współczesny in Szczecin, Teatr im. Siemaszkowa in Rzeszów, the Jaracz Theater in Łódź and the Modrzejewska Old Theater in Cracow (including Arthur Miller's The Witches of Salem and Kōbō Abe's Woman of the Dunes).
In the early 1990s, she began writing her own theater and television scripts. In 1995, the premiere of Inka Dowlasz's Toxic Parents took place on the stage of Scena pod Ratuszem of the People's Theater in Cracow, and in the following years other works were produced - including Bici biją, Odlot (awarded at the "Contexts" festival in Poznań), Situation without a way out, Vacations in Holland, Sekrety Baronowej. In cooperation with the Wyspianski Silesian Theater in Katowice, she presented the play Go Heal Yourself, and also directed the play Toxins at the Kochanowski Powszechny Theater in Radom. She is the author of the monodrama Elizabeth Watson - cichociemna (about the life of General Elżbieta Zawacka). Inka Dowlasz's staging of Traps honored the centennial anniversary of the Theater at Pohulanka in Vilnius (January 2013).
An area of Inka Dowlasz's activity at the People's Theater is working with young people through theater workshops. In 1998 she established the Improvisation Studio; in 2000 she founded the Study of Therapy through Art. In 1997-1998 she collaborated with Jerzy Fedorowicz (then director of the Nowa Huta theater) on a television program called Zadyma on TVP2, which became a kind of forum for difficult and conflictual problems.
Beyond her work at the People's Theater in Krakow, she conducts stage improvisations as part of her theater studies classes at Jagiellonian University, and also teaches at the Krakow School of Theater and Film and the J. Giedroyc School of Communication and Social Media in Warsaw. J. Giedroyc in Warsaw.
Since 2017, she has been working with the Foundation for Dorota Targowska and Her Friends, based in Toruń, writing scripts and supporting the actors of the "YES or NO?" theater run by the Foundation. The theater's actors are people with disabilities, mainly burdened with Trisomy 21. In 2018, the play "Can I be loved?" was staged at the Biennial XIII Theater Meetings Terapia and Theater in Lodz. On May 31, 2019, the premiere of another play "Dream of Good Colleagues" in the House of the Muses in Toruń, with scenery by Inka Dowlasz and performed by the Theatre "Is YES or NO?"
From 2019, he is a member of the Program Council of the Silesian Theater.
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