Jacek Glomb has served as director of Modjeska Theatre in Legnica since August 1994. His directorial career to date has included: Passion (1995), a work based on Mieczyslaw Abramowicz that was performed in St. Mary’s Church, Legnica, and in churches throughout the country; Bad (1996) based on Lepold Tyrmand and performed in a post-German ammunition factory; Don Quixote Recoverd (1997), by Krzysztof Kopka; Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (with Krzysztof Kopka) presented in an ex-Prussian (and then ex-Russian!) army barracks; Ballade of Zakaczawie (2000), written in collaboration with Krzysztof Kopka and Maciej Kowalewski, performed in an abandoned cinema (the Railwayman); Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (with Krzysztof Kopka) performed in a ruined theatre hall; Citizen M – a history (2003) by Maciej Kowalewski, inspired by the biography of former Polish prime minister Leszek Miller; Uprisings and Settings of the Town (2003); Saul (2004), by Robert Urbanski; Shakespeare’s Othello (2006); Lemko (2007), also by Robert Urbanski and performed in a former variety theatre in a suburb of Legnica; and the famous Killing Gomulka (2007), by Jerzy Pilch in the Lubuski Theatre, in Zielona Gora.

His many awards include best Polish contemporary play for Bad (1997); best Shakespeare performance of the season (Coriolanus) from the Theatrum Gedanense Foundation in 1998/99; and the 7th Polish Contest for Polish Contemporary Plays for Ballade of Zakaczawie. He was honored by the prestigious Konrad Swinarski Award granted by the monthly “Theatre.. He also received directing awards for Othello at the 10th International Shakespeare Festival (2006) and for Killing Gomulka at the 13th Polish Contest for contemporary plays.

Three of Glomb’s productions – Passion, Ballade of Zakaczawie, and Uprisings and Setings of the Town were produced for television, and he has also created a TV musical spectacle, Polish Flowers.

His debut feature film, Operation Danube, will premiere in 2009.