Zadara was awarded the 2008 Passport Award in Theater by the weekly magazine Polityka, roughly Poland’s equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize. In April of the same year, he was the featured artist of the biannual Warsaw Theater Meetings Festival, a showcase of the best productions of the year in Poland. The festival program included seven productions directed by Zadara from all over the country, including Warsaw’s National Theater. In January 2010, Zadara is scheduled to make his operatic debut at Warsaw’s National Opera, directing Greek composer Iannis Xenakis’s rarely staged Oresteia.