Mária Šamajová

She has been a member of the BDNR ensemble since 1989.

She worked at Studio T.W.I.G.A. She leads the Children’s Drama Club at BDNR. She holds holder of several premiums and prizes from the Literary Fund for her acting performances in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012-2015, 2018. For her acting performance in the children’s production of Anička Ružička and Tonko Modrinka in 2007, she won the Prize of the International Festival of Puppet Soloists in 2007 in Lodz, Poland. In 2019, she received the prestigious Annual Literary Fund Award for her performance as Amália in the production Amália Breathes Deeply. At the International Festival of Puppet Theaters “Klasyka Od-Nowa” in 2023 in Będzin, Poland, Mária Šamajová was awarded a prize in the category “Acting Creation” for the animation in the production The Little Hen Who Wouldn’t Give Up. This award was given by ZASP, the Union of Polish Stage Artists, Puppet Theatre division.

Featured in productions for children:
I. (Ne)bojsaňa: The Bugaboo Tale
AQUAtoddleRIUM
B. Schenková (after Ch. Perrault): Puss in Boots
M. Guśniowska: Bon Appetit, Wolf!
B. Schenková based on the motifs of Czech folk tales: Two Tales on the Tummy
P. Belická, Z. Strnátová: Fairy Tale Geography: African Fairy Tales
Margery Williams Bianco: The Velveteen Rabbit
J. Mokoš: About Clever Mouse and Two Lazy Tommy Cats
J. Streit: The Boy Who Traded his Hap for Chocolate
J. Tomlinson: The Little Hen Who Wouldn’t Give Up
M. Guśniowska: Kamil

Featurred in productions for adults:
I. Buková : T. V. Recipes
M. Kováčová: The Stars are Silent
Iveta Horváthová: Europe in Correspondence
B. S. Timrava, E. M. Šoltésová: Variations of Love
Various authors: The Theatre at the End of the World
Various authors: Fog / TУМАН