About Speaker

Director of the Academy of Arts and Culture, which co-hosts Theater Workshops. He studied Polish Philology at the University of Warsaw and Drama Directing at the PWST Directing Faculty. He collaborated with the Institute of Literary Research and the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). His master's thesis, written during Zbigniew Osiński's seminar, received an award from the national "Young Thought for the Country" competition committee. During his directing studies, he was an assistant at the National Theater to Adam Hanuszkiewicz, Konrad Swinarski, and at the Dramatic Theater to Jerzy Antczak, Witold Skaruch, and Witold Zatorski. He presented his workshop works at the Ochota Theater and the Festival of Small Theatrical Forms in Wrocław, as well as at the PWST Scientific Circle in Warsaw. He led amateur theater groups at Hybrydy club, Stodoła club, and the Palace of Youth. He is the author of entries on theater, film, and rhetoric in the Dictionary of Cultural Knowledge, published by Arkady in 2009.
He worked as a Polish language teacher at the experimental LX High School (under the directorship of Jolanta Lipszyc), soon becoming the deputy director for academic affairs and vice-chairman of the Society of Creative Schools, which includes 30 of the best schools in Poland. In 1991, he founded the Art-Education-Promotion Association and the 21st Social High School, which adopted the name of Jerzy Grotowski in 2002. In 2005, he established the Social Scholarship Fund Foundation, aimed at supporting valuable initiatives and talented youth.