Mateusz Staniak

Mateusz Staniak is a young Polish director who lives and works in Amsterdam. He studied directing at the Academie voor Theater en Dans and graduated with the theatre productions Kortinthe, 2057 and The Limits of the Self. With the Noord Nederlands Toneel, he made Odyssey for their online platform NITE Hotel. In 2021 he directed Wer hat meinen Vater umgebracht by Édouard Louis at Schauspeilhaus Bochum.

Mateusz is an experimental director who is fascinated by the possibility of reinventing reality through theatre.

In season 22|23 Staniak will direct Hamlet and Ophelia, a collaboration between Toneelschuur Productions and ITA as part of the joint talent development program. As part of this collaboration Staniak will also direct Huis van Troje in season 23|24.

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Toneelschuur Producties x ITA / Mateusz Staniak Theater Hamlet and Ophelia

A raw performance about a true story that never happened

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Toneelschuur Producties / Mateusz Staniak / Internationaal Theater Amsterdam Theater Huis van Troje

The Trojan War is a myth, but the fall of Troy is a fact. But where do the stories begin and the facts cease to exist?