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