Authors

Ewa Lachnit, a playwright and film director. Graduated in Polish Studies, specialising in theatre and cinematic arts, at Cracow University, and in Theatre Direction at Katowice University. She has made several feature films and documentaries. An author of contemporary plays: A Man from the Garbage (1996, awarded by the Ministry of Culture), The Bread Thieves (2000, received the TV Theatre award for contemporary drama), Choose the Stone You Will Throw (awarded in the 2007 John Paul VI Contest).

Robert Lewandowski, born in 1963, a graduate of Playwriting Department at Łódź Drama School. An author of screenplays and tv scripts, a playwright, copywriter and script doctor, also writes fiction and children’s poetry. His plays mostly concern ethics and the human condition. 

Born in 1990, Szczecin. A Drama writer and a visual artist. Graduated from the Academy of Arts in Szczecin, the Economical University in Cracow and the Jagiellonian University. He also studied in France. His works have been shown in Europe and Asia. An important field of his research is neo-society, whose life is inseparably connected with technology. In his texts he tries to picture it, as a united society reaching towards common goals, but traumatized by its own humanity and limited by net of dependencies.

Izabela Morska, born in 1961 in Gdynia, a writer. Graduated from the Polish Studies Department at Gdansk University. Between 1986 and 1996 she lived in France and the USA. In the States she studied drama, acting, cinematic and visual arts, women’s literature and yoga. She made her literary debut in 1992 with a short story collection The Death and the Spiral. She has published eight books, a lot of essays and features. Since 2003 she’s been living in California, teaching at Berkley University.

Paweł Mossakowski, born in 1957, an author of radio and tv plays, reviewer and film producer. A graduate in sociology at Warsaw University, in 1981 he was employed as a junior lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Culture. Since 1989 a journalist for “Gazeta Wyborcza”, in 1990-1996 a literary director of the Polish Radio Theatre, and in 1996-2003 a Canal Plus film producer. 

Poet, writer, playwright. She graduated in psychology from the Jagiellonian University, worked as a PR specialist, journalist and screenwriter. She has published the following poetry volumes: Po kostki w niebie, Czerwie, Berlin Porn, novels: A Barcode Man, Autumn in New York, The Lodge and a play: Project America.

Born July 14th, 1989 in Białystok, playwright. Graduated from the faculty of Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Warsaw. Debuted at age 16 with a short story entitled Retaliation, published in the Death For a Good Beginning anthology.

Jacek Papis, born in 1969, a director, actor, writer, playwright, graduate of the Stage Direction Department at Cracow Drama School (1999) and of the Theatre Arts Department of Warsaw Drama Academy (1995). A co-founder of the Wytwórnia Theatre in Warsaw (which opened on November 5, 2005). Collaborated many times with Maja Komorowska in Warsaw and Krystian Lupa in Cracow. A winner of the Ministry of Culture scholarship for dramatic literature.    

Born in 1977. Graduated from PWST in Wrocław in 2002. Until 2009 he was a member of the ensemble of the Polish Theatre in Poznań, in which he played, among others: Lieutenant in Helmucik (I. Villqist, dir. P. Łysak), Piotr Wierchowieński in Demons (F. Dostojewski, dir. M. Fiedor), Joaquin Perez Fernandez Rivas Rooney in Tales of Argentina (based on W. Gombrowicz, dir. P. Kamz), Myzdral in Ferdydurke (W. Gombrowicz, dir. A. Tyszkiewicz). He also played Karol in The Visit of an Old Lady (F. Dürrenmatt, dir. W.

"...what you write in the newspapers has no comparison at all with the power of stage communication. In the newspapers, it all disappears in some maddening crowd, in the mass daily production of gigantic amounts of texts, which are mostly skimmed. And here we are, face to face, only the stage and you, the viewer. And you have to listen or leave, which is not easy. So you listen.