Contributor

Hanna Bondarewska

Actor, Director,she believes in the power of theater to change the world for the better through collaboration and artistry.

Hanna Bondarewska Founder, CEO, and Artistic Director Hanna Bondarewska is a native of Warsaw, Poland and was trained in the Polish and American schools of drama. She founded the Ambassador Theater because she believes in the power of theater to change the world for the better through collaboration and artistry. By bringing together theater and diplomacy she hopes to give us all a new perspective as global citizens, which will lead to deeper cultural understanding. In 2008 Hanna organized a life-changing trip to Poland for students from D.C. Public Schools as part of an educational program about Poland. The program was done in collaboration with the Embassy of Poland, Embassy Adoption Program, D.C. Public Schools and WPAS and culminated in a performance at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland at the invitation of the First Lady of Poland. She worked with over 60 students, teaching them about Poland, its history, culture, and traditions through theater games designed to help them better retain learnt material, improve their reading comprehension, posture, and speaking skills, increase their imagination, and energize their drive for life. She also teaches outreach programs at Arlington schools helping students to learn through theater and art. Hanna’s recent acting credits include the role of Antonia in They Don't Pay? We Won't Pay, Maria in Smartphones, Stankova in Protest, Negma Sadiq in The Visitor, George Sand in Summer at Nohant, Young Helena Modjeska in Helena—the Emigrant Queen and many others. She has directed recently The Peephole, The Madman and the Nun, Summer at Nohant, Out at Sea many staged reading and bare bone productions. Hanna performed at the Ambassador Theater, Washington Shakespeare Theatre, Spectrum Theatre, Classika Theatre, The New York Polish Theater, Hippodrome State Theatre, and Acrosstown Theater in Florida, where she also directed The Tao of Pooh, based on the book by B. Hoffman, and S. Mrożek’s Tango. Her Polish theater credits are extensive and include work in Warsaw, Bialystok, Olsztyn, Torun, Katowice, and Wroclaw with many luminaries of the Polish stage. She graduated magna cum laude from the Mount Vernon College of The George Washington University and earned her Acting Diploma in Poland. Ms. Bondarewska has received various honors, including the Helen Hayes Canadian Partnership Grant Award, 2014 DC Metro Theater Arts Best Director Award, Julia Heflin Performing Arts Award, recognition by Who's Who Among Students in American Universities, identification as a National Dean's List Scholar, and others. In 2016 she has participated in special workshop with Nobel Prize Winner, Dario Fo in Alcatraz, Italy and recently she has been accepted in Shakespeare Intensive Course at the Royal Academy (RADA) in London, UK.