Zenon Kruszelnicki
- Actor
Zenon holds an MFA in acting and directing. He was a participant in the
Lincoln Center Directors Lab. He is a lifetime member of The Actors
Studio and an ongoing guest director at The American Academy of
Dramatic Arts. In 2004 he professionally coached Willem Dafoe. At the
same year he collaborated with the Wooster Group on a new production
entitled "Poor Theater". He recently co-produced a documentary about
the making of Andrzej Zulawski's 1982 cult classic "Possession"
starring Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani. He is a member of the
International Federation of Actors (FIA), Stage Directors and
Choreographers Society, SAG and
ZASP. Zenon graduated in 2000 with an M.F.A in Theater Directing from
the Actors Studio Drama School at the New School University in New
York. Prior to directing, he received his M.F.A. in Acting from The
National Academy of Drama in Poland. During his studies, he worked with
Rena Mirecka and Zygmunt Molik, both actors at Jerzy Grotowski's
Laboratory Theater on improvisation within structure, montage of
physical action, plastic exercises, and vocal production. Zenon's work
is based on overcoming psychological barriers, discovering sources of
energy in the human body, physical and vocal training. From 1998 to
2000 he was the Liberace Scholar awarded by the Liberace Foundation for
the Performing and Creative Arts. In October 1999 he received The
Candle of Understanding Award in the Production of Talking Books from
The Jewish Braille Institute of America. Zenon is an Acting Coach,
Theatre Director, Actor and Acting Teacher in New York. His thesis
dissertation was "Characteristics of Kathakali Theatre." As part of the
research for his thesis he traveled to India to study the places,
origins, and the living culture of Kathakali. Zenon speaks Polish,
Russian, English, German, and Italian.