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Ms. Barbara Borys-Damięcka is a theatre and television director, president of the Association of Theatre Directors of Theatre in Poland, President of the Pole of the Year in the Netherlands jury, Chair of the Council of Television Polonia, Senator (VII and VIII terms), working on the Committee for Culture and Media and the Committee for Emigrant Affairs and Liaisons with Poles Abroad. In an interview with Link to Poland, she talks about her everyday work, the emergence of TV Polonia, and the basis of success of Television Theatre.

Polish American actor and director Omar Sangare has been teaching for a few years at Williams College, settling down in the USA in order to become a professor at the college of liberal arts, which is at the top of America’s league tables. A former actor of the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw, the New York Times wrote after Sangare’s performance in “Othello” that he was born to play that role. Here he explains that the most important thing for him is to be a Pole, because of the experience and inspiration he gained in his motherland.