is a Production Designer born and raised in Lublin, Poland and based in New York City where she lives with her husband and 5 year old daughter, Zosia.
Her background in theater, graphic design and puppetry informs her work as a production designer today.
She was originally trained as a graphic designer and art printer and received her first MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, where also she studied puppetry at the Studio for Puppet Theatre Actors.
While in New York to exhibit her works in puppetry at the NYC Independent Film Festival, she applied and was accepted for an internship with Richard Foreman of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. After completion the internship Foreman recommended her to Yale School of Drama where she studied under Ming Cho Lee and received her second MFA in Set Design in 2006.
She began her career in theater, where her unique talents as a set designer came to light by marrying a profound understanding of story with production design on a macro and micro level. Since 2020, Ola is the Production Designer on Gossip Girl, a new HBO Max Original Series, and an Associate Professor at the NYU Tisch School for the Arts where she teaches the art of Production Design.
