Daniel CzaczaAntoniewicz
Stage & screen actor
As an actor, but above all as a person, I keep looking for new, unknown paths through life. This page is one more expression of that. Step over my threshold and hear what I want to tell you.
00A few words
Trying to describe a person in a few words — and these days ideally in a few seconds — can be as inspiring as it is futile. It depends on the attempt. Everyone interests me, yet talking about myself is not something I usually do. I simply try to be. So let's see whether, in the few words below, I allowed myself to be.
Stay with me.
01Theatre
The Jewish Theatre, 2018 – present. Incredible luck. I got in through a nationwide casting, so it felt a bit like applying to drama school all over again. 400 people for one place. I have no idea how it happened; there is no rule, no key. There is simply “The Day”. And that was “The Day”.
Since then I have played in premieres every year, often lucky enough to play leading roles. The finest adventures include:
The Jewish Theatre · 2018 – present
The Jazz Singer
Title role
We barely had time to enjoy it before the pandemic arrived.
Fiddler on the Roof
Motel the tailor
A beautiful classic that plays itself. All that's left is to let the story carry you. And to learn how to use a Singer sewing machine.
Yentl
Avigdor, co-lead male role
A story of women's emancipation in a patriarchal world. Also a story of love and friendship. Not easy ones. How could they be.
M. Factor. The Birth of Beauty
Title role
Agata's musical debut on the main stage. With a biography like that and a pleasantly wicked sense of humour in the script, it is a unique show to play. Which doesn't mean easy. A big show for the audience and a camera on stage to play with!
Inheritance
Azriel, one of the leads
A great saga based on the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer, told in a contemporary language: fast, dynamic and deep at the same time. Jakub Lewandowski's movement work lifts it superbly. The two of them make an amazing duo.
The Song of Songs
Two-hander
Unlike anything else. The Bible's most loving book in Czesław Miłosz's translation, brought to life by two actors in an intimate, ethereal space. A performance not so much with a plot as with an “experience”.
This list could be longer. And it is. But let's leave some room for the imagination.
Other stages
Man does not live by a full-time contract alone. Circumstances let me co-create two productions at Teatr STU and step into the shoes of artists such as Marek Grechuta, Andrzej Zaucha, Zbigniew Wodecki and Maryla Rodowicz. A fairy tale.
02Film & television
I decided on screen acting much later. The stage was my first love. The camera first appeared as an intriguing acquaintance, and we have only recently started becoming friends. But I already know it's a relationship for years to come.
Film & TV
Barwy szczęścia
Matecki
48H. Missing
Role of the episode
Genialna M.
Na dobre i na złe
Tomek Chmielowiec
Black Mercedes
Man in Cafe Muza
Commercials (incl. leading roles)
03Education
AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków
And before that, the Academy of Physical Education and the Warsaw University of Technology. A time of searching.