narrator
O artyście
Sławomir Holland is a theatre, film and radio actor. He graduated from the Theatre Academy in Cracow (the Wrocław branch) in 1984. During his professional career, he has collaborated with theatres in Kielce, Bydgoszcz and with seven theatres in Warsaw (Popularny, Szwedzka 2/4 Theatre, Na Woli, Syrena, Polish Radio Theatre, Och Teatr and Ateneum). He is still associated with the latter. For many years, he used to work with the Laboratory of Drama and the Atlantis theatre group. He has been recording audiobooks and working for film dubbing.
His artistic achievements include about 50 stage roles. He has played in over a 150 films and TV series, cooperating with such film directors as Agnieszka Holland, Steven Spielberg, Andrzej Wajda, Peter Edwards and Krzysztof Zanussi. Sławomir Holland’s monodrama Nothing New Under the Sun, directed by Jacek Bursztynowicz, was awarded the Golden Leaf Retro 2012. The play has been staged over 150 times, both in Poland and abroad (England and Israel). In 2015, Sławomir Holland presented a comedy monodrama – Jadzia’s Life According to Me, based on a book by Zam Believingood under the same title.
In 2012, Sławomir Holland was greatly honoured by Krzysztof Penderecki, who invited him to record the narrator part in the Seven Gates of Jerusalem (for DUX label). The event marked the beginning of his cooperation with Penderecki – he has also performed the narrator part in St Luke Passion (opening of the Salzburger Festspiele 2018 and the opening concert of the Seoul International Music Festival 2019) as well as in Kaddish.
Sławomir Holland’s latest achievements include the premiere of his monodrama To Poland after a poem by Avrom Suckewer (2018) and the premiere of monodrama How It Really Was directed by Alicja Choińska (music by Kuba Sieniewicz), based on a short story by Antoni Słonimski (2021).