Niko Niakas
Academy of Dramatic Arts in Cracow, Campus Faculty (Puppetry) in Wroclaw. In Toruń since 1983.
He performs in:
“Concert of Wishes”
artistic assistance: Iwona Kempa, Jacek Bończyk
arrangements and musical direction: Igor Nowicki
premiere: 07.10.2012
Béla Pintér “Queen of Cakes”
Directed by: Ula Kijak
premiere: 06.04.2013
Jarosław Jakubowski “Licheń story”
rez. Tomasz Hynek
premiere: 01.03.2014
Wojciech Bogusławski, Stanisław Wyspiański, Witold Gombrowicz “Polish Face Expressions” (Miny polskie)
dir. Mikołaj Grabowski
premiere: 20.12.2014
Marcin Wierzchowski “Kansas”
rez. Marcin Wierzchowski
premiere: 28.03.2014
Acting is for me … a way of life
If I were not an actor … there is no such option
My favorite:
Book: “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov
Music: good
Film: “Zorba the Greek”
Roles in Wilam Horzyca Theater
Tadeusz Różewicz “The Card Index”
dir. Krystyna Meissner
premiere: 25.09.1983
Jean-Paweł Sartre “Flies”
dir. Jacek Zembrzuski
premiere: 11.12.1983
Bertolt Brecht “Fear and misery of the Third Reich”
dir. Alexander Domańska
premiere: 03.03.1984
Witold Gombrowicz ‘Ferdydurke’
dir. Waldemar Śmigasiewicz
premiere: 24.03.1984
John Gay “Beggar’s Opera”
dir. Wojciech Maryański
premiere: 30. 06.1984
Juliusz Słowacki “Balladyna”
dir. Krystyna Meissner
premiere: 21.1.1984
Abe Kobo “Woman from the Dunes”
dir. Krzysztof Kelm
premiere: 01.06.1985
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz “The Water Hen”
dir. Andrzej Markowicz
premiere: 06.10.1985
Alfred de Musset “Lorenzaccio”
dir. Marcel Kochańczyk
premiere: 18.05.1986
Isaac Babel “Twilight”
dir. Krystyna Meissner
premiere: 14.02.1987
Moliere “The Bourgeois Gentleman”
dir. Yves Goulais
premiere: 26.02.1991
L.N. Clerambault “Orpheus”
dir. Krystyna Meissner
premiere: 06.04.1991
Nikolai Gogol “The Government Inspector”
dir. Krystyna Meissner
premiere: 11.03.1992
Jean Giraudoux “The Madwoman of Chaillot”
dir. John Błaszyński
premiere: 17.05.1992
Darius Milhaud “Bull on the Roof”
dir. Wojciech Kępczyński
premiere: 07.11.1992
Robert Musil “Confusions of Young Torless”
dir. Krystyna Meissner
premiere: 05.02.1993
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Possessed”
dir. Jan Maciejowski
premiere: 02.05.1993
Ariano Suassuna “The story of the Merciful One or the dog’s will”
dir. Bogusław Semotiuk
premiere: 19.09.1993
Pierre-Jean Breanger “The songs before the tribunal”
dir. Marta Stebnicka
premiere: 17.10.1993
Aleksander Fredro “Revenge”
dir. Krystyna Meissner
premiere: 09.01.1994
Wojciech Bogusławski “Cracovians and Highlanders” (Krakowiacy i Górale)
dir. Andrzej Rozhin
premiere: 01.03.1994
Alfred de Musset “No Trifling with Love”
dir. M. Fiedor
premiere: 08.05.1994
William Shakespeare “Merchant of Venice”
dir. Krzysztof Warlikowski
premiere: 18.09.1994
Tankred Dorst “Fernando Krapp …”
dir. Krystyna Meissner
premiere: 17.12.1994
“Enchanted Lake” by Tchaikovsky
dir. Władysław Janicki
premiere: 30.09.1995
Bertold Brecht “Threepenny Opera”
dir. Marta Stebnicka
premiere: 18.12.1995
Stanisław Wyspiański “Wedding”
dir. Krystyna Meissner
premiere: 20.12.1996
Nikolai Gogol “Marriage”
dir. Marek Fiedor
premiere: 16.04.1997
Cezary Domagała / Tomasz Bajerski “Pinocchio, or musical story of the Good Upbringing” (Pinokio, czyli Muzyczna opowieść o Dobrym Wychowaniu)
dir. Cezary Domagała
premiere: 7.12.1997
“Francis Villon at the railway station in the town K.”
dir. Marta Stebnicka
premiere: 9.11.2002
Jan Brzechwa “Cinderella”
dir. Wieslaw Komasa
premiere: 12.09.2003
Witold Gombrowicz “Wedding”
dir. Elmo Nüganen
premiere: 8.10.2004
Tomasz Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov “Celebration”
dir. Norbert Rakowski
premiere: 29.10.2005
Tadeusz Różewicz “The Trap”
dir. Peter Gothár
premiere: 07.01.2006
William Shakespeare “Midsummer Night’s Dream”
dir. Paweł Łysak
premiere: 25.03.2006
John Guy “Beggar’s Opera. Concert for 21 actors’
directed by: Team
premiere: 31.12.2006.
Hanoch Levin “Suitcase Packers”
dir. Iwona Kempa
premiere: 31.032007
Michał Walczak “Unbelievable stories or Last daddy”
dir. Gabriel Gietzky
premiere: 27.10.2007
Howard Brenton “In Extremis”. The story of Abelard and Heloise
direction and set: Iwona Kempa
premiere: 10.05.2008
William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”
dir. Margaret Bogajewska
premiere: 8.11.2008
Hehnryk Ibsen “The Wild Duck”
dir. Agnieszka Lipiec – Wróblewska
premiere: 05.12.2009
“Caritas. Two minutes of silence “
dir. Lies Pauwels
premiere: 27.03.2010
Hanoch Levin “Winter ceremonies. Burlesque with eight scenes”
dir. Iwona Kempa
premiere: 11.09.2010.
“The new Don Quixote” based on texts by Aleksander Fredro
idea of staging: Katarzyna Raduszyńska
artistic assistance: Iwona Kempa
premiere: 08.01.2011
“Nadia” by A. Chekhov
dir. Agnieszka Lipiec-Wróblewska
premiere: 24.03.2012
“Concert of Wishes”
artistic assistance: Iwona Kempa, Jacek Bończyk
premiere: 07.10.2012
Béla Pintér “Queen of Cakes”
dir. Ula Kijak
premiere: 06.04.2013