
Luba Zarembińska
Guest Artist
Director
Confession in Wood(Apr. 2006)
Luba Zarembińska has been the artistic director of Station Szamocin Theatre
in Szamocin, Poland, since 1997. She has directed at various theatres throughout
Poland including Station Szamocin in Szamocin, Theatre 44 in Szamocin and Theatre
of Adepts in Trzcianka. Zarembińska is known more notably for her interest
in creating theatre pieces that ignite social change. Recently the Batory Foundation
of Poland awarded Station Szamocin Theatre a grant to produce a project and
perform in the former state agricultural companies where chronic unemployment
threatens communicates with passivity and alcoholism. The theatre not only
performs but encourages people from the threatened areas to take part in social
change. Other projects that Zarembińska has created include Open Waiting
Room, the social and cultural project aimed to the poorest inhabitants
of villages of Western Poland, and KM 14,7 an international theatre
project performed on rails, which documented the memories of WWII Polish and
Germans inhabitants of Szamocin. Zarembińska has studied extensively at
the Academy of Theatre in Warsaw and Biaystok where she has also been on the
faculty and director of Puppet Theatre.