Paweł Łysak – a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology of the University of Warsaw and of the Department of Drama Directing at the Warsaw State Higher School of Theatre. He has directed over 30 productions on the stages of theatres of Warsaw, Poznań, Bydgoszcz, Lublin, Łódź and Toruń, as well as seventy radio plays. Winner of prestigious awards and distinctions, including the Golden Cross "for merits for Polish culture" (2015), the annual Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the category of Theatre (2012), Polityka weekly's "Passport" (2008), awards for directing at the 16th National Competition for the Staging of Polish Contemporary Drama (2010), Grand Prix of the Festival of the Polish Radio Theatre and Polish Television Theatre "Dwa Teatry – Sopot" (2011). From 2000 to 2003 he co-directed, together with Paweł Wodziński, the Polski Theatre in Poznań. From 2006 to 2014, he was the director of the Polski Theatre in Bydgoszcz. Since September 2014, director of the Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw. From 2012 to 2016, Chairman of the Council for Artistic Institutions at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Since 2014, vice-president of the Association of Theatre Directors and, since 2017, deputy chairman of the Guild of Polish Theatre Directors.
