Nicholas Ofczarek

KSch. Nicholas Ofczarek, born in Vienna and raised in Switzerland and Austria, completed his training at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna and has been a member of the Burgtheater for 30 years.

In 1991, his teacher Elfriede Ott engaged him for the Maria Enzersdorf Festival, where he portrayed August Sonders in Nestroy’s He Wants to Have a Joke. In the following years, he appeared on small and medium-sized Viennese stages and at the Porcia Comedy Plays in Spittal an der Drau, before Claus Peymann brought him to the Burgtheater in 1994. Since then, he has played leading roles in both the classical and modern repertoires.

In 2005, he made his Salzburg Festival debut in Grillparzer’s King Ottokar’s Fortune and End, and from 2010 to 2012 he was the fifteenth Everyman of the Salzburg Festival.

The highly acclaimed actor, a two-time recipient of the Nestroy Award and of the Grimme Award, also holds the Gertrud Eysoldt Ring, the Nestroy Ring, the Vienna Actors’ Ring, and the Josef Kainz Medal. In 2017, he was awarded the title of Kammerschauspieler.

Nicholas Ofczarek has also achieved success in film and television, receiving the German Television Academy Award in 2016 for “Best Actor.”

In the 2006 Mozart Year co-production between the Vienna State Opera and the Burgtheater, he performed the role of Selim Bassa in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail.