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Alina Obidniak (born 29 June 1931) is a Polish theatre director and actress.
Life
Graduate of Ludwik Solski Academy of Dramatic Art in Kraków, National Film School in Łódź and Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow in the class of professor Alexander Dovzhenko. Obidniak was an artistic director of the Wojciech Bogusławski Theatre in Kalisz (1964-1970) and Cyprian Kamil Norwid Theatre in Jelenia Góra (1973-1988, 2000), where she invited many renowned theatre directors including Krystian Lupa, Henryk Tomaszewski, Adam Hanuszkiewicz and Jean-Marie Pradier. In 1978 theatre critics awarded her at Théâtre des Nations Festival in Caracas. In 1983 she organised an early Festival of Street Theatre in Jelenia Góra.
She was a close friend of fellow theatre director Jerzy Grotowski. In 1995 Obidniak received the title of Polish "Woman of Europe" from European Commission.