Theatre director, scriptwriter, maker of independent films and video installations. His education includes theatre studies and political science at Swarthmore College in the United States, and oceanography at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. A graduate of Kraków's State Theatre School (drama directing). At Kraków's Teatr Stary, he staged Korek / Traffic Jam - together with Anne-Laure Liegéois (2004), Handke's Offending the Audience (2005), Słowacki's Ksiądz Marek / Father Marek (2005), Racine's Phèdre (2006), Kochanowski's Odprawa posłów greckich / The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys (2007), Ifigenia: Nowa Tragedia / Iphigénie. A New Tragedy based on Racine (2008), Mikołaj Rej's Kupiec / The Merchant (2009), and at the Teatr Scena STU - Wyspiański's Wesele / The Wedding (2006).

   At Gdańsk's Teatr Wybrzeże, he directed Demirski's From Poland with Love (2005) and Wałęsa. Historia wesoła, a ogromnie przez to smutna / Wałęsa. A Funny Story, Which Makes It Incredibly Sad (2005), and at the Teatr Współczesny in Szczecin: his own project Na gorąco (inspired by Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot; 2006), Dürrenmatt's The Visit (2008), and Nocleg w Apeninach / A Night in the Apennines - an operetta by Jacek "Budyń" Szymkiewicz based on the libretto by Fredro (2009). At the Teatr Współczesny in Poznań, he staged Różewicz's Kartoteka / The Card Index (2006) and Vyrypaev's Genesis No. 2 (2007).

   In Warsaw, he directed Molnár's The Paul Street Boys (Teatr Narodowy, 2007) and his own morality play KAŻDY/A (Teatr Studio, 2008). In 2007 he staged Ozonkinder at Berlin's Maxim Gorki Theater, and the play Tykocin at the Habima National Theatre in Tel Aviv. He has been an assistant and collaborator of Małgorzata Szczęśniak, Kazimierz Kutz, Jan Peszek, and Armin Petras. He received a Polityka Passport award in 2007. He worked on a play based on a non-existent novel by Bruno Schulz, that was produced at the Schauspielhaus in Vienna.

   At the Polish National Opera, he directed Xenakis' Oresteia (2010).

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