Professor Ph.D. Hab. Pawel Dobrzycki
pawel.dobrzycki@cybis.asp.waw.pl
dobrzycki.pawel@gmail.com
+48601530193
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PROFILE
Stage, costume, and lighting designer, pedagogue, painter and architect.
About 350 works with the best directors in the best polish theatres and abroad (England, Germany, Greece, Holland, France, Israel, Russia), including about 70 opera productions (on opera stages, open air and large scale productions) and some films. In Pawel’s work, the lighting design is always alongside the stage design.
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EXPERIENCE
Design of spaces, sets for drama and opera theatres, open air performances, costumes, lights, exhibitions, posters.
Scriptwriting for theatre and film.
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PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITY
Pawel teaches set, ostium & light design and staging process. Professor in Academies of Fine Arts and Academies of Theatre in Cracow and Warsaw.
Pawel was creator and first Dean of the Scenography Faculty at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Pawel’s students got a lot of awards on festivals of scenography in Poland and on Beijing International Biennale of International Stage Design Students Works Exchange 2014, 2018: II and I award for staging and design (Cristal Cube for Paula Kukla for staging and design of “Ubu King” by K. Penderecki). Promoteur of many diploma designs and degrees.
Many workshops, especially during Beijing International Biennale of International Stage Design Students Works Exchange.
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ARCHITECTURAL ACTIVITY
architectural designs for theatre, consultations, functional programs, expertises.
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EXHIBITIONS
Many individual exhibitions of his designs, paintings and drawings (Poland, Germany, France, Russia)
Group exhibitions: PQ, World Stage Design (Toronto, Taipei, Calgary), Costume on the Turn of the Century 1995 – 2015 Warsaw, Taipei, Shanghai, China, Moscow, Mexico, Ashville St. Louis USA.
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SKILLS
Creativity, ability to work in a team, ease of making contacts
artistic management of production teams
running production teams
computer skills: Adobe Photoshop and other computer programs
English, Russian: fluent in writing and speech
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SELECTION OF IMPORTANT PRODUCTIONS FROM LAST YEARS
2022 – 1996
King Lear by Shakespeare, all dir. Helena Kaut – Howson, Pawel’s set and costumes, Lear played by famous Kathryn Hunter. IV version The Globe Theatre London, III version Panasonic Globe Theatre Tokyo Japan, II version Young Vic Theatre London, I version Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, Great Britain.
2024
Deprawler
Proof of the existence of the other
Two TV fims after plays written and directed by Maciej Wojtyszko about Witold Gombrowicz, Polish National TV Production, Warsaw
2023
Kidnapping from Seray by Mozart, dir. M. Znaniecki, Warsaw Chamber Opera, Warsaw, Poland
2021
Lucia from Lammermoore by Donizetti, dir. Anette Leistenschneide, Wroclaw Opera Wroclaw
Freischutz by Weber, dir. C. Tomaszewski, Wroclaw Opera, Wrocław
La Nozze de Figaro by Mozart, dir. R. Skolmowski, Great Opera Theatre Łódź
2019
Turandot Puccini, dir. M. Weiss – Grzesiński, Opera and Philharmonia Podlaska, Białystok; Poland
2018
Lady with an Ermine film after E. Chowaniec’s play, dir. K. Łęcka Remi Golden Award Houston Film Festival USA
Kiddnaping from Seray by Mozart, dir. Yuri Alexandrov, Warsaw Chamber Opera
2017
Faithful Ruslan after novel by G. Vladimov, dir. Helena Kaut – Howson, I version Belgrade Theatre Coventry, version II Theatre Citizen Glasgow Great Britain
Pars pro toto script & dir. K. Łęcka, film after script by K. Łęcka and P. Dobrzycki, Munk Studio, Warsaw, Poland
Rigoletto by Verdi, Teatr Wielki Poznań, dr. Marcin Bortkiewicz, Poznań
2016
Les Liaisons dangereuses after Pierre de Laclos, adaption & dir. Yorgos Kimoulis, Alma Theatre, Athens, Greece
2014
Lucia from Lammermoor by Donizetti, dir. Anette Leistenschneider, Opera Wrocław
The evidence a next exists by Wojtyszko, dir. M. Wojtyszko, National Theatre Warsaw
Macbeth by Verdi, large scale production, dir Bruno Berger-Gorsky, Wroclaw Opera, Centenial Hall Stage
2013
Phantom in the Opera by Andrew L. Webber (new, non replica version), Dir. W. Kępczyński, Opera and Philharmonia Podlaska, Bialystok, Poland
Frank V by Duerenmatt, dir. Rudolph Straub, Theatre Rozrywki Chorzów
Traviata by Verdi, dir. R. Skolmowski, Opera and Philhharmonia Podlaska
2012
Don Juan comes back from the war by Odon von Horwath, dir. Yorgos Kimoulis, Athens Summer Festival, Contemporary Theatre Athens, Greece
Aida by Verdi, Xanten Arena Opera Festival, Dueseldorf, dir. A. Frontczak, Germany
2011 Nabucco by Verdi, dir. Anette Leistenschneider; Zoeten Theatre, Haga, Holland, tour in Holland and Belgium;
2010
Ship of Fools after Brant, scenario and dir. P. Tomaszuk, Wroclaw Puppet Theatre, Wroclaw Puppet Theatre;
August by Tracy Letts, dir. Andrew Bubien, Omsk Drama Theatre, Russia
2009
Don Quichote after Cervantes, dir. Y. Kimoulis, Hellen Festival, opening in Atticus Herodos Odeon Theatre on Akropolis, Athens, and tour
2008
Jeckyll & Hyde by Frank Wildhorn, dir. M. Znaniecki, Rozrywki Theatre Chorzow
Phantom in the Opera by Webber, non replica new version, dir. W. Kepczynski, Teatr Roma Warsaw
2007
Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky, dir. Yuri Alexandov, Opera Wroclawska, large scale production in Centenial Hall Stage Wroclaw
2006
Aida by Verdi, III version, dir. M. Grzesinski, Wielki Theatre Łodz
Faust by Gounod, dir. M. Grzesinski, Cracow Opera, Cracow
Lady Macbeth by Schostakovitch, dir. H. Baranowski, Novosibirsk Theatre of Opera and Ballet
Rigoletto by Verdi, dir. Marek Grzesinski, National Opera Warsaw, Pafos Aphrodita Festival, Ciprus
2005 - 2001
Oedipus King by Sophocles, dir. Yorgos Kimoulis, Contemporary Theatre Athens, opening in Epidauros, later tour around Greece, played in ancient theatres
Seventh against Thebs by Aischylos, dir. Yorgos Kimoulis, Contemporary Theatre Athens; opening in Petra Theatre Athens & National Ancient Theatre Thessaloniki, later tour around Greece, played in ancient theatres
Anthygony by Sophocles, dir. Yorgos Kimoulis, Contemporary Theatre Athens, opening in Epidauros, later tour around Greece, played in ancient theatres
(The opera productions: Nabucco, Aida, Le Nozze di Figaro, Turandot, Faust, I Capuleti e i Montecchi were showed in Dusseldorf, Xanten, Heidelberg, Luxemburg, Regensburg, Groningen, Pafos, Nikosia, Larnaca, Switzerland, Holland and Belgium on summer festivals and tours as well.
Other important opera and musical productions: Oniegin, Fiddler on the Roof, Traviata, Phantom in the Opera (non replica, new design), Macbeth, Freischutz, Manor House, Rigoletto, Devils from Loudun, Chicago, Evita, Cabaret, Fledermouse, Rent, Jeckyll&Hyde, Shrek L’elixir d’amour, I Capuletti e I Monteki, Anna Bolena, Tosca.
Special open air versions of opera performances.
Large scale productions included: Aida, Macbeth, Boris Godunov, Nabucco, Rigoletto and others.
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EDUCATION
1974- 1980 University of Technology in Cracow Faculty of Architecture
1978 – 1981 Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Scenography Department
Revelant courses of screenwriting
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AFFILATION
OISTAT member of the Education Commission of OISTAT, representing Poland.
2021 / 22 – member of Jury of World Stage Design Calgary 2022
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INTERESTS
Science, fine arts, literature & poetry, new technologies
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