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Kevin Anthony Hayes is an actor, director and Polish theatre specialist with around thirty years involvement in Polish culture. He had the pleasure of living behind the 'Wall' for almost three years from October 1986, as a Polish Government and British Council Scholar. He then worked as a theatre director at Krakow's famous Stary Theatre. As the first Englishman to direct at the Stary he was responsible for a very successful revival of 'THE IMPORTANCE...'All in all he has directed and produced a number of plays in Poland. In 2000 he was awarded an 'Uprawnenia' or Diploma, in Theatre Directing by the Polish Association of Theatrical Artists (Z.A.S.P.). He spent a season at the prestigious Contemporary Theatre in Wroclaw acting in Polish in Waldemar Krzystek's production of 'THE LOW MEADOWS.' He has worked as a Senior Lecturer in Practical Phonetics at Warsaw University's Institute of Applied Linguistics. His controversial paper on 'The Vision of Homo Sovieticus as it appears in the Dramas of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz' was banned from publication in Russia following the author's presentation of it at 'The First International Conference devoted to Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz' at The Actors Centre St. Petersburg in 1993. He has worked for Polish Radio and Television, presenting and making programmes at The National News Service in Warsaw. This included a very popular cycle of Comic Weather Forecasts on TELEEXPRESS. He has appeared in a number of Polish feature films. He has translated classic Polish work for the film director Jerzy Skolimoski, has interviewed leading Polish film directors such as Filip Bajon, Agnieszka Holland and Krzysztof Zanussi, in English for Polish television. In 2007 he was awarded a 'Green Card' on the basis of being considered 'An Alien of Extraordinary Ability' in the realm of Polish Theatre. Mark Rudnicki is a Term Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, where he teaches courses in composition, research methods, philosophy, and world literatures. Previously, he taught at University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University, and George Washington University. He is the recipient of two Kosciuszko Foundation Research Fellowships and has spoken at various conferences primarily on the intersection of philosophy and literature in the works of Witkacy, Gombrowicz, and Schulz. He received a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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