Stefan Golaszewski
Stefan Golaszewski is an English/Polish writer, performer and director. He is part of comedy sketch group Cowards and is the writer and creator of the BAFTA winning sitcom Him & Her.
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Early life
Stefan Golaszewski comes from Poland, as does his family. His surname is pronounced Goh-lah-shev-skee.[1]
Career
Golaszewski was the Cambridge Footlights President in 2002-03.
He wrote, performed in and co-directed a pilot for BBC Three called Things Talk. As a director, he won the if.comedy Best Newcomer Award with Tom Basden for Won't Say Anything in 2007 and again in 2009 with Jonny Sweet for Mostly About Arthur.
His one-man play Stefan Golaszewski Speaks about a Girl He Once Loved was performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2008. Directed by Phillip Breen, it picked up a host of five-star reviews. This was later performed with another play Stefan Golaszewski is a Widower at the Bush Theatre in London's Shepherd's Bush, again to critical acclaim.[2] The two plays have since been published as The Stefan Golaszewski Plays by The Invisible Dot Ltd.
Golaszewski is a part of comedy sketch group Cowards, which also includes Tim Key, Tom Basden and Lloyd Woolf. They made a TV series for BBC Four and their second Radio 4 series came out in late 2008.[3]
His sitcom Him & Her, starring Russell Tovey and Sarah Solemani, aired on BBC Three for four series during 2010-2014 and won the 2014 British Academy Television Award for Best Situation Comedy.[4]
He has written a West End play, Sex with a Stranger, that was staged in early 2012 starring Tovey and Jaime Winstone.[5]
References
- ↑ https://www.howtopronounce.com/golaszewski/
- ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/6727997/The-Stefan-Golaszewski-Plays-at-Bush-Theatre-review.html
- ↑ http://www.thecowards.co.uk/people.html
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tmyzz
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/feb/12/sex-with-a-stranger-review
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