Gietzky Gabriel
Born in 1969, he is a director, scriptwriter, actor, translator and adaptator. A graduate of the Academy of Drama in Wrocław, in the 1990s he worked at the Baltic Theatre of Drama in Koszalin, Pomerania, interpreting over 20 roles. He was granted a Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship to study at the Directing Department at DAMU, Prague. He also graduated with distinction from the Directing Department of the State Academy of Theatre in Warsaw (2004). He was assistant to Krystian Lupa in the staging of Bernhard’s Extinction and Asylum after Gorky. At the 2nd EuroDrama in Wrocław, he received the Audience Prize for his interpretation of Przemysław Fiugajski’s Bernhard Variations (2004).
Recently, Gabriel Gietzky has directed plays such as The Treatyafter L. Wittgenstein (Wrocław’s Współczesny Theatre, 2007), Letter to His Father after Kafka (Częstochowa Theatre, 2007), Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (Wrocław’s Współczesny Theatre, 2008), Tadeusz Różewicz’s The Trap (Wrocław’s Współczesny Theatre, 2010), Michel Tremblay’s Albertine in Five Times (Katowice Theatre, 2010), Zyta Rudzka’s Cukier stanik(Laboratorium Theatre in Warsaw, 2010), Radosław Paczocha’s Bar Babylon (Olsztyn Theatre, 2010), Poles after Witold Gombrowicz and Stanisław Wyszyński (Polski Theatre in Warsaw, 2011), Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw, 2011), Wolfgang’s Weinberger Sex Guru (Warsaw, 2012), and Chekhov’s The Seagull (Silesian Theatre in Katowice, 2012).
