Lech Raczak Explained

Lech Raczak
Birth Date:1946 1, df=yes
Birth Place:Poznań, Poland
Death Place:Poznań, Poland
Alma Mater:Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Occupation:stage director
Years Active:1964 – 2020
Awards:Swinarski Award (1993)

Lech Raczak (27 January 1946 – 17 January 2020) was a Polish theatre director and theatre practitioner.

Career

He studied Polish literature on Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He was one of the founders of the Theatre of the Eighth Day, which was one of the most original and most significant groups of the student theater movement from which Polish alternative theater arose.[1] In 1993 Raczak and ensemble of the Theatre of the Eighth Day received the Swinarski Award. From 1995 to 1998 Raczak was an artistic director of Polish Theatre in Poznań and between 1993 and 2012 he worked for Malta Festival as an artistic director. Since 2003 he was a professor at University of Arts in Poznań.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Search - Polish Cultural Institute. www.polishculture-nyc.org. 2016-10-25.
  2. Web site: ORBIS TERTIUS » Lech Raczak. www.orbistertius.pl. 2016-10-25.