Mateusz
Pakuła
Mateusz
Pakuła
Playwright, dramatist and theatre director. Repeatedly awarded for his plays, adaptations and performances. Winner of the Gdynia Drama Award and the Special Award of the Teatr monthly. He has published six books of dramas. His most important recent theatrical productions include Lem vs P. K. Dick and Pluton p-brane at the Łaźnia Nowa Theatre in Krakow and Wieloryb the Globe, directed by Eva Rysova. As a playwright and author of adaptations, he has co-created such plays as Śnieg or Konformista, directed by Bartosz Szydłowski, and Wojna polsko-ruska and Paw królowej, directed by Paweł Świątek. For the book Jak nie zabiłem swojego ojca i jak bardzo tego żałuję, his prose debut, he was nominated for the Gdynia Literary Award and the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Award, and by the decision of the chapter of the latter, he received an invitation to a literary residency in Vence. In January 2023, a performance based on the book, directed by the Author, premiered at the Łaźnia Nowa Theatre in Krakow and the Stefan Żeromski Theatre in Kielce.
pic. Dawid Kozlowski