Bartosz Martyna

**Bartosz Miłosz Martyna** (born March 7, 1984 in Zabrze) is a Polish theater, film, voice actor, teacher, culture animator, teacher and doctor of art.

He is an author of the Performer monodrama (2013) and was awarded at a number of theater festivals. He is deputy Director of the Warsaw Dance Theater.

## Biography

In 2010 he graduated from the Acting Department of the Theater Academy in Warsaw. In 2015 he obtained a doctorate in art from this university. Earlier, he also studied cultural studies and philosophy as part of the Interfaculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the University of Silesia in Katowice (2002–2006). He was a scholarship holder of the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship and for many years a scholarship holder of the president of the city of Zabrze.

He made his debut in 2009 with the role of Louis XIV in the spectacle The Devil in Purple on the stage of the Warsaw Theater Stage Presentations with Ignacy Gogolewski. He was also the director's assistant at this performance. A year earlier, he also worked as a director's assistant on the diploma performance of Three Sisters at the Collegium Nobilium Theater in Warsaw.

He worked professionally among others with the Dramatic Theater in Warsaw, the New Theater in Warsaw, the Polish Radio Theater, the Warsaw Chamber Opera, and the Copernicus Science Center.

In September 2013, the premiere of the author's monodrama Performer, which Martyna was a scriptwriter and director, and who himself performed. For this performance he received a number of distinctions, including Award of the Olsztyn Meetings of One Actor Theaters "SOLO" (2014), first prize of the 16th Festival of Theater Art in Rybnik (2014) and the Distinction of the 12th National Contemporary Monodrama Review in Warsaw (2014).

He appeared in supporting and episodic roles in films and television series. Since 2009, he has been working on many productions as a dubbing actor and teacher. He was the author and co-author of a number of radio plays. In 2013, he debuted in the film Canadian dresses along with Anna Seniuk.

Since 2009, he has been the deputy director of the Warsaw Dance Theater, where he deals with organization, marketing and promotion. He participated in the performance of Warsaw Dance Theater performances on stages in Japan (Iwata, Tokyo), the Czech Republic (Olomouc), Poland: Ciechanów, Kielce, Minsk Mazowiecki, Olsztyn, Ostrołęka, Płock, Poznań, Przasnysz, Radom, Rybnik, Siedlce, Tarnowskie Góry, Warsaw, Wrocław and Zabrze. He also collaborated with Kabaret Macież.

Since 2011, he has been the deputy director and coordinator of the Warsaw Dance Days International Contemporary Dance Festival. In 2015, he was the organizer, co-coordinator and substantive supervisor of the annual Warsaw Dance Platform program. As an organizer, he collaborated on a number of initiatives with the Masovian Institute of Culture.

Martyna is also active as a teacher. In the years 2010–2011 he organized workshops at CIX High School with Integration Departments in Warsaw. In 2014, he conducted workshops for scholarship holders of the National Children's Fund. In the 2016/2017 academic year, he collaborated as an assistant lecturer at the Theater Academy in Warsaw and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. In the same academic year, he conducted classes for students of the College of Artes Liberales of the University of Warsaw.

He has presented papers at a number of international conferences, including in Geneva, Zurich, Warsaw and Krakow. In the years 2014–2015 he participated as a playwright, actor and organizer in the international scientific and artistic project ROOTS in Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, at the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film in Zurich.

He is a member of the Association of Polish Stage Artists, Polish Choreological Forum and the Open Zone Association.

## Involvement in *Duluth*

In the Polish dub of *Duluth*, he voices Ortolan Beta Strait (seventeenth season only) and Federal Katsura (Blue Mountain Mystery - seventeenth season).