Izabella Kalitowicz

Biography

Actress. She learned her profession at the acting school at the Artistic Theater in Moscow and at Vsevolod Meyerhold. In 1905 she came to Poland and began to perform at the Polish Theater in Lódz. In the years 1906-1909 she played in Warsaw, among others in Government Theaters. She spent World War I in Russia, playing in Polish theater groups in Moscow, Petrograd and Kiev. In 1920, she performed in Warsaw, and then moved to Vilnius, where she was involved in the Polish and Universal Theater. In the 1920s, she performed in traveling theaters, including with Karol Adwentowicz, Kazimierz Junosza-Stepowski and Mila Kaminska. In the years 1929-32 she belonged to the group of the Soldier's House Theater in Warsaw. At the same time, she performed in a traveling band under the direction of Irena Solska. In the second half of the 1930s she played in Warsaw on the stage of the Comedia Theater, and then the Universal Theater. She spent the Second World War in Warsaw. Shortly after the end of the war, she performed at the Rzeszów Land Theater in Rzeszów. Then she left for France.