Stefan Golaszewski

Stefan Golaszewski is a British/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.

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]

His second sitcom Mum, starring Lesley Manville, premiered in 2016. Its second series was screened in 2018.

References

  1. ↑ "How to pronounce Golaszewski". HowToPronounce.com. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  2. ↑ Spencer, Charles (2009-12-04). "The Stefan Golaszewski Plays at Bush Theatre, review". Telegraph. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 June 2006. Retrieved 2006-04-22.
  4. ↑ 03:30 (2015-12-31). "BBC Three - Him & Her, Series 1". BBC. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  5. ↑ Tom Lamont. "Sex With a Stranger – review | Stage". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-10-15.



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