Paweł Dobrzycki (Mentor, Curator)
Paweł Dobrzycki (Mentor, Curator)
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
Centaurs and Cassandra
Opera by Anton von Bekker
Libretto and designs: Paweł Dobrzycki
Production in progress, 2025
Goplana
Opera by Wl. Żelenski
Polish National Opera
Set and costumes: Paweł Dobrzycki
Production moved to the future, 2023
King Lear
By William Shakespeare
Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, 1996: set and costumes
Young Vic Theatre, London, 1997: set, costumes and lights
Panasonic Globe Theatre, Tokyo, Japan, 1999: set, costumes and lights
Globe Theatre, London, 2022: set and costumes
Director: Helena Kaut-Howson in all productions. Kathryn Hunter as Lear in all productions
Antygony
By Sophocles
Director: Yorgos Kimoulis, also playing Creon
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus and tour, 2005
Set, costumes and lights
Oedipus Rex
By Sophpocles
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, 2007
Seventh against Thebs
By Aischylos
Petra Theatre, Athens, 2009
Sets and lighting concept
Director: Yorgos Kimoulis, also playing Oedipus and Eteocles
Fiddler on the Roof
Opera Podlaska, Poland, 2014
Director: Roberto Skolmowski
Set, costumes and lights
Ship of Fools
After Sebastian Brant
Adaptation and direction: Piotr Tomaszuk
Wrocław Puppet Theatre, Poland, 2010
Set, costumes and lights
Le Notte di Figaro
Opera by W. A. Mozart
Wielki Theatre, Łódź, Poland, 2023
Director: Roberto Skolmowski
Sets, costumes and lights
Kidnaping from Seray
Opera by W. A. Mozart
Warsaw Chamber Opera, Poland, 2018
Director: Yuri Alexandrov
Set, costumes and lights
Phantom in the Opera
By Andrew Lloyd Webber
New version (non-replica production)
Roma Theatre, Warsaw, Poland, 2008
Sets and lighting concept
Flying Dutchman and Me
From the cycle: No. III An Island of Trees and Me, No. V Nine Muses and Me, No. IX Faith and Me
From the cycle Postpandemic, Postwar, Postgenetic Fashion for Myself for Future
2022-2025
Don Juan Comes Back from the War
By Ödön von Horváth
Contemporary Theatre of Athens at Mousouris Theatre, Summer Festival of Athens, 2012
Director: Yorgos Kimoulis, also playing Don Juan
Set and lighting concept
Don Quixote
After Cervantes
Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Acropolis, Athens, 2009
Director: Yorgos Kimoulis, also playing Don Quixote
Set and lights
Marlena. Last Concert
By Janusz Majcherek. The story of the life and songs of Marlena Dietrich
Polski Theatre, Warsaw, 2017
Director: Josef Opalski
Set, costumes and lights
Faithfool Ruslan
After Georgi Vladimov
Belgrade Theatre Cantenbery, Citizen Theatre Glasgow, Great Britain, 2017
Adaptation and direction: Helena Kaut-Howson
Opera Spaces for Coming Productions
Sets, 2022-2026
Exhibition view
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