Anna Polish-French theatre director, translator and graduate of literature studies at the Paris-Sorbonne University. In 2016, she was nominated for creating intimate and empathetic theatre in which she deals with commonly marginalized topics.
Anna Smolar (1980) is one of the most talented artists of the new generation in contemporary Polish theatre. She has already assisted Krystian Lupa, Jacques Lassalle and Andrzej Seweryn, while, in terms of film, she has also collaborated with Agnieszka Holland. She works in France and Poland. In 2001 in Paris, she created the group La compagnie Gochka. In Poland, she has been directing for a decade, having collaborated with theatres in Warsaw, Katowice, Wrocław, Białystok, Bydgoszcz, Kraków and Opole where she directed a dozen or so performances.