Intrator, Bożenna

Bozenna 'Bo' Intrator is a multi-lingual producer, author, director and visual artist.  Born and raised in Poland she is something of a world citizen, having lived and worked for significant periods of time in Austria, USA and France.
Bo graduated from New York University in 1990 with a Master of Philosophy degree in German literature and film.  
She retains dual citizenship in both Poland and USA. 
She is writing poems, short stories, novels, plays and screenplays in Polish, German and English, they were published in the countries where those languages predominate.  
She has written, translated and/or adapted numerous pieces for the theatre and for television in Poland and in the USA. Among her TV offerings was the Polish series, HELA W OPALACH, based upon the American series, Grace Under Fire, Królowa i Szekspir - Bozenna's Polish adaptation of Esther Villar's play Tea in Richmond.
Songs with her lyrics are on CDs and in films; A KTO WIE (and who knows) is since 2001 the most often played Christmas Song in Polish Radio and TV stations. 
Bo directed plays and music videos. The most recent play she directed in Tarpon Springs,  Florida in 2024 was her comedy Third Time's A Charm. Her music videos are in the worldwide distribution.  Imagining China and Like Summer Holidays were in the official selections of the Lift-Off Film Festivals in  London, New York, Los Angeles and  Paris, Like Summer Holidays won the main award in the Holiday short film category at the Avalonia Festival, USA 2023.  Between the bigger creative projects Bo has exhibited her paintings and photographs in Austria, Switzerland, Poland and USA.
Bo Intrator was one of the screenwriters and producers of the already critically acclaimed movie  I’LL FIND YOU aka MUSIC, WAR AND LOVE - a historical drama with a great international cast that premiered in 2022 in North American cinemas and on various streaming platforms in the USA and Canada, then in 2023 worldwide.
 

Education

• New York University - PhD Program, Grad School of Arts and Science, German Department, New York, USA, graduated 1990 with the degree of Master of Philosophy
• University of Southern California - Grad School of Arts and Science, German Department, L.A., USA
• Vienna University - Institute for Translating and Interpreting, Vienna, Austria
• Warsaw University - German Department, Warsaw, Poland

Memberships: ZAiKS (Poland)

Represented by:

• Song lyrics - talent agent: Damian Slonina at Jaguarec (Poland),  publisher:  Sony/ATV Music Publishing Poland
• Play translations and plays - talent agent: ADiT Agency (Poland), 
• Screenplays - law office:  Greg Snodgrass at Business Affairs (LA, USA)

Screenplays

• "Music, War and Love" (written in English - film in production – planned American premiere 2016)
• "It started with a dream”  
• "Talk to you on Facebook” (TV play)
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• “Not Fashion Alone” (Fashion TV worldwide 2012)
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• “The Bait” - Author of the English version of the screenplay - film shot in Polish and English (2009)
• “Hela w opałach”  -  3 episodes (2007/2008, TVN Poland)

• "Praktyka wzgledności" (Relativity in practice)
• „Tak blisko i tak daleko" (So close and yet so far away - a stageplay consisting of poems and music); „Tak blisko i tak daleko" (It started with a dream – a drama); „So nahe und so weit" - in German
• „Nasz mały krasnoludek" (Our little wizard)
• „Między końcem i początkiem" (Between the end and the beginning – a monodrama)
• „Talk to you on facebook" in English (written with an Irish poet and dramatist - Edward Lee)
• „Motyle były wcześniej" (Butterflies were earlier written with Paweł Jurek)
• "Śpij nie śpij" (Sleep don't sleep)
• „Third time's a charm" (comedy)

Play translations and adaptations into Polish

• „Królowa i Szekspir" (Esther Vilar)
• „Zazdrość" (Esther Vilar)
• „Starość jest piękna" (Esther Vilar)
• „Strategia motyli" (Esther Vilar)
• „Moskito" (Esther Vilar)
• „Wielki Apetyt" – written based on the American play „Fully committed" by Becky Mode (won 2011 the main award in the Katowice Comedy Carnival - the biggest comedy festival in Poland)

Theaters in which plays were staged: Theater Polonia in Warsaw, Theater Nowy in Warsaw, Theater Nowy in Lodz, Theater Stu, Teatr na Woli, Theater Studio, TVP Theater & Polish Radio Theater, Theater Studio Buffo and others

Plays directed by: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Krystyna Janda, Mikołaj Grabowski, Grażyna Barszczewska, Grażyna Dyląg, Paweł Aigner, Łukasz Kos, Aldona Figura and others

A full length novel

• "Luft nur", 1995, Röschnar, (Austria)

Poetry collections

• "Szepcząc, Geflüster", (pl, de) published by Wydawnictwo Edukacyjne, Kraków
• "Tak blisko I tak daleko / So nahe und so weit", (pl/de) a book+CD, published by Akademia Wilanowska, Warsaw

Play translations published in a print form

• "Królowa i Szekspir", Teatr Nowy in Lodz, 2000
• „Zazdrość", Teatr Nowy in Lodz, 2001
• "Starość jest piękna", ADiT, 2008