Paweł Dobrzycki

Paweł Dobrzycki

Stage, Costume and Lighting Designer

Professor PhD Hab. Paweł Dobrzycki (born 1954) is a stage, costume and lighting designer, pedagogue, painter and architect.

He is the creator and former Dean of the Scenography Faculty at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

He has created about 350 works with the best directors in the best Polish theatres and abroad (England, Russia, Germany, Greece, Holland, France, Israel), including about 50 opera productions and several films. In Paweł’s work, the lighting design always goes alongside the stage design.

Paweł is a member of the Education Commission of OISTAT, representing Poland. He has had many individual exhibitions of his designs, paintings and drawings.

2021/22: member of the Jury of World Stage Design Calgary 2022.

His students have received many awards at scenography festivals in Poland and at the Beijing International Biennale of Stage Design Students Works Exchange 2014 (II and I award for staging and design).

Recent productions

• 2018: Golden Remi Award of the Houston Film Festival (USA) for best film, Lady with Stoat, dir. K. Łęcka, set and costume design Paweł Dobrzycki
• 2022: King Lear by Shakespeare at The Globe Theatre, London, dir. Helena Kaut-Howson, set and costumes by Paweł Dobrzycki, Lear played by Kathryn Hunter