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Paweł Paszta
(born 1984)
Director in theatre and film, pedagogue, writer, theatre and festival manager and programmer
Between 2003 and 2008 Paweł studied at the Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Mechatronics. He subsequently graduated with honours from the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy, the faculty of Directing in 2012 where his diploma performance was The Maids by Jean Genet. In 2020 he became the Doctor of Arts, as he has completed his PhD examination and performance.
In 2010 he completed a six-week international course on Japanese Theatre and Culture in Bucharest, Romania, led by masters of noh, butoh and kabuki. In March 2012 he participated in the FIND plus workshop organized by Schaubühne in Berlin supervised by Thomas Ostermeier. As an assistant director during his studies, he worked with Natalia Babińska at the Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa, with Jarosław Kilian at the Teatr Polski, with Mikael Marmarinos at the Teatr Dramatyczny and with Grażyna Kania at the Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw.
Since 2012 he has directed over 25 full size performances in repertoire theatres. (eg. at the Jewish Theatre and Teatr Kamienica in Warsaw, Norwid Theatre in Jelenia Góra, Rozrywka Theatre in Chorzów, Współczesny Theatre in Szczecin, Horzycy Theatre in Toruń, Szaniawski Theatre in Płock, Osterwa Theatre in Gorzów). He has directed performative readings and performances at many theatres in Warsaw, Cracow, Toruń... So far, his theatre plays have been performed at the Bydgoszcz Opera Festival and the Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival; at the Prapremier Festival in Bydgoszcz, at the Young Directing Forum in Krakow, at 'Oblicza Teatru' Festival in Polkowice, Talia Festival in Tarnów, Interpretacje festival in Katowice (TV Theatre) and more. He worked for OSTEN festival in Bitterfeld in 2022, where he prepared a perfomance on Polish Transformation through punk music (together with Alexander Pehlemann).
Since 2007 he has been a drama instructor and taught theatre in various places. He continues and develops his pedagogic work with his own method combining theatre, drama and certain targets (both in art, personal development and in business). In 2012 he set up a theatre company called ATu Teatr; the first performance of the group was Script for three actors.
In 2016 he graduated Wajda Filmschool and in 2017 he directed his Theatre TV debut called Silent night, produced by Warsaw Documentary and Feature Film Studios (WFDiF), which has been presented at many international festivals (ex. Gold Remi award for dramatic original at Worlfest Houston Festival).
In 2018 he directed a baroque opera Il Trespolo Tutore conducted by Andrea de Carlo in Theatre Colegium Nobilium in Warsaw. The performance was a first staging of the piece since the premiere in 1679. Filmed and published by DUX, the opera has received an international recognition (eg. four stars review in Classica magazine, Pizzicato Supersonic Award). In 2019 Paweł Paszta worked for Stradella Young Project in Rome on another Alessandro Stradella's opera Amare e fingere.
Between 2017 and 2021 Paweł Paszta was an artistic director in Wilam Horzyca Theatre in Torun and a deputy director of an International Theatre Festival Kontakt in Torun, Poland. Also he was a deputy director of the Festival of Debutants First Contact.
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