| Dawid Zakowski |
 From 1997 to 2007 was an actor of Studium Teatralne from Warsaw (independent theatre group run by Piotr Borowski from 1996, see: www.studiumteatralne.pl). In Studium Teatralne he worked on following projects: Polnoc / Midnight (1998), Czlowiek / Man (2000), Parsifal (2001), Hamlet (2003), Nizynski / Nijinsky (2004), Henryk Hamlet Hospital (2006) and Bramy raju /Gates of Paradise (2007). Stage practice and cooperation with Studium started in 1997 in Polnoc / Midnight performance where he created a role of Konrad / Marek Chaber. The performance toured Europe and South America. During next years working in Studium Teatralne he was responsible for developing actor’s training, individual work with other actors and workshops for actors and apprentices in Poland and abroad (Caracas, Venezuela, 2001; Canterbury, England 2003 and 2005; Naples, Italy 2006). He co-directed the next to last performance of Studium: Henryk Hamlet Hospital. In 2003 he graduated linguistics and Polish literature at Warsaw University. The subject of his master’s dissertation was Waclaw Nijinsky’s choreographies. In 2006 he won an award for the best actor at the 2 Festival Iberoamericano di Teatro (Mar del Plata, Argentina) in the role of Henryk in Henryk Hamlet Hospital. This performance won also the main price at the festival. In 2006 received an actor’s degree. Most recently (2007) he directed 1/3 project based on King Lear by William Shakespeare in Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw. |