Grzegorz Ziółkowski Author & Editor

PAUL ALLAIN is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Kent. He is a Polish theatre expert who collaborated with Gardzienice Theatre Association from 1989 to 1993 and published the first English book on their work (Gardzienice: Polish Theatre in Transition, 1997), and has written extensively on actor training and Tadashi Suzuki. He co-edited with Grzegorz Ziolkowski a special issue of the journal Contemporary Theatre Review on Polish theatre after 1989 (2005). From 2006 to 2009, he led the three-year Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded British Grotowski Project and he has collaborated extensively with the Moscow Art Theatre School. He edited the collected writings of Ludwik Flaszen (Grotowski & Company, 2010; 2013), and co-edited Peter Brook's With Grotowski (2009) and Acting with Grotowski: Theatre as a Field for Experiencing Life, by Zbigniew Cynkutis (2015). GRZEGORZ ZIOLKOWSKI is Professor of Drama, Theatre, and Performance at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. He is author of the monographs Teatr Bezposredni Petera Brooka (Peter Brook's Immediate Theatre, 2000) and Guslarz i eremita (A Sorcerer and Hermit, 2007), on Jerzy Grotowski. He has co-edited several works: a special issue of the journal Contemporary Theatre Review with Paul Allain on Polish theatre after 1989 (2005), Peter Brook's With Grotowski (2009), and 'On Performatics' (2008), a special issue of Performance Research. He was Programme Director of the Grotowski Centre and the Grotowski Institute from 2004 to 2009. In 2009, he directed an artisanal atelier for actors and directors, To the Light. Currently he leads ATIS (Acting Techniques Intensive Seminar) and Studio ROSA, where he directed its inaugural production TAZM Silence of Light, based on Tahar Ben Jelloun's novel This Blinding Absence of Light.