Piotr Pacześniak

Piotr Pacześniak is a theatre director, dramaturg and screenwriter based in Warsaw, Poland. He studied art history at the University of Warsaw and directing at the National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków. As a director and dramaturg he has worked with numerous theatres in Poland, including the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw, STUDIO teatrgaleria, the Polish Theatre in Poznań, the Adam Mickiewicz Theatre in Częstochowa and the New Theatre in Łódź, where he made his directing debut with “A People’s History of Poland”.

In his work he reflects on the situation of his generation against a backdrop of geopolitical, economic and identity-related change. He is interested in people as individuals within family, social and historical dependencies, and in how late capitalism shapes our relationships with family, nation, Europe and other people.