Stefan Golaszewski

Stefan Golaszewski is a British-Polish writer, performer, and director. He is part of comedy sketch group Cowards and is the writer and creator of BAFTA winning sitcoms Him & Her and Mum.

Early life and education

Golaszewski was the Cambridge Footlights President in 2002-2003.

Career

Golaszewski wrote, performed in and co-directed a pilot for BBC Three called Things Talk. As a director, he won the if.comedy Best Newcomer Award with Tom Basden for Won't Say Anything in 2007 and again in 2009 with Jonny Sweet for Mostly About Arthur. His one-man play Stefan Golaszewski Speaks about a Girl He Once Loved was performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2008. Directed by Phillip Breen, it picked up a host of five-star reviews. This was later performed with another play Stefan Golaszewski Is a Widower at the Bush Theatre in London's Shepherd's Bush, again to critical acclaim.[1] The two plays have since been published as The Stefan Golaszewski Plays by The Invisible Dot Ltd.

Golaszewski is a part of comedy sketch group Cowards, which also includes Tim Key, Tom Basden and Lloyd Woolf. They made a TV series for BBC Four, and their second Radio 4 series came out in late 2008.[2]

Golaszewski's sitcom Him & Her, starring Russell Tovey and Sarah Solemani, aired on BBC Three for four series from 2010 to 2014 and won the 2014 British Academy Television Award for Best Situation Comedy.[3] Golaszewski wrote Sex with a Stranger, staged in early 2012 and starring Tovey and Jaime Winstone.[4]

His second sitcom, Mum, starring Lesley Manville and Peter Mullan, premiered in 2016. Its second series was screened in 2018 and the third and final series was screened in 2019.

In September 2021, it was announced that Golaszewski's new drama, Marriage, would air in 2022 and would star Nicola Walker and Sean Bean.[5][6]

Credits
Year Title Notes
2009 Cowards 3 episodes; also actor
Things Talk Television film; also director
2010-2013 Him & Her 25 episodes; also executive producer
2016-2019 Mum 18 episodes; also executive producer
TBA Marriage Also director and executive producer

References
  1. Spencer, Charles (4 December 2009). "The Stefan Golaszewski Plays at Bush Theatre, review". Telegraph. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 June 2006. Retrieved 2006-04-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "BBC Three - Him & Her, Series 1". BBC. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  4. Tom Lamont (12 February 2012). "Sex With a Stranger – review | Stage". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  5. Julian, Joe (24 September 2021). "Nicola Walker and Sean Bean to lead BBC relationship drama Marriage". Radio Times. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  6. "Sean Bean and Nicola Walker to star in new Stefan Golaszewski drama, Marriage, for BBC One". BBC. 24 September 2021. Retrieved 15 January 2022.


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