Maja Wampuszyc
- Actress
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Maja made her Broadway debut in
2009 at The Walter Kerr Theater, in Irena's Vow by Academy Award
nominee Dan Gordon, directed by Michael Parva originating the role of
Ida Haller. Favorite roles include: Kara, the German wife of a First
Gulf War Veteran suffering with PTSD, in Gun's, Shackles and Winter
Coats by Mike Strozier; Marina Petrovna, a Russian Uzbekistani born
terrorist in the political farce Foggy Bottom by James Armstrong at The
Abingdon Theater; and a Palestinian activist, a Chicago lesbian and a
70 year old Israeli Zionist in the Chicago Silk Road Theater's two
hander play Precious Stones. Additional NYC and film credits include: a
Father in The Obie Award winning play An Oak Tree by and with Tim
Crouch at the Barrow Street Theater (other fathers in the run included
F. Murray Abraham, Joan Allen, and Frances McDormand); Rewriting Her
Life, by Barbara Masry, directed by Tony Award winner Trazana Beverly;
as well as runs at: The Pearl Theater, HB Playwrights Foundation, MCC,
Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Museum, NY Fringe Festival, Theater for the
New City, NYDIA, Looking Glass Theater; and films Mona Lisa Smile by
Mike Newell and Shopping by Henry Jaglom. Maja studied acting with Uta
Hagen, Austin Pendleton, and her mentor Robert X. Modica; studied
Shakespeare at the British American Academy of Dramatic Arts; interned
with the Wooster Group; graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in English
Literature from Wayne State University; and is bilingual in Polish and
English. She has volunteered as a mentor with the 52nd Street Project.
Maja is graduated from the Bikram Yoga College of India, practices
daily and teaches for Bikram Yoga NYC.
