Krzysztof Warlikowski


Krzysztof Warlikowski is a Polish theatre director. He is the creator and artistic director of Nowy Teatr in Warsaw.

Biography

He studied history, philosophy and Romance languages at the Jagiellonian University and also philosophy, French language and literature at École Pratique Des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne. He graduated in directing from Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in 1993. Among his teachers was director Krystian Lupa. In the early 1990s Warlikowski worked for some time as Lupa's assistant. He met and learned also from Peter Brook and Giorgio Strehler.
Warlikowski directed his first plays at Stary Teatr in Kraków, where he staged Heinrich von Kleist's The Marquis of O. in 1993. His later dramas were performed at various theatres in Poland and Europe, including Teatr Nowy in Poznań, Warsaw's Teatr Studio, Teatr im. W. Horzycy in Toruń, Teatr Dramatyczny in Warsaw.
Since 1999 he directed for TR Warszawa. Currently his plays are being performed at Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, which he founded in 2008 and at which he is an artistic director.
Warlikowski is gay and was in a long relationship with actor Jacek Poniedziałek but he is currently married to Polish set designer Małgorzata Szczęśniak who is his life partner.
He was the author of the Message of World Theatre Day 2015.

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