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Filip Pawlak. Born 1994, Katowice, Poland.

Theatre and dance producer, performer, social debater. Queer person with a hand disability.

A graduate of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice (Master of Film Arts), the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław (postgraduate, mediation of contemporary art), Collegium Civitas in Warsaw (postgraduate, Art History), participant of the Erasmus program at SZFE in Budapest. From September 2023 student of MA International Program Performing Arts as a Critical Practice in Theatre Academy in Malmo / Lund University.  

In 2023 production manager and curatorial adviser of 10Treffen program in a frame of 60. Theatertreffen Festival in Haus Der Berlinerfestspiele. Until end of season 2021/22 head of the production department in the Nowy Teatr International Cultural Center in Warsaw and the producer of this theater since 2019.

From 2019 the Polish ambassador of the Europe Beyond Access as part of which he held talks with artists, networking of polish art community, participated in discussion panels and consultations regarding the program. From 2021 year co-curator of “Learning Journeys” in frame of EBA project, from 2024 Expert Collaborator of new edition of the EBA.

Holder of Unlimted London scholarship (IETM Tromso Bursary 2020), participant of the IETM Campus (Eleusis, Greece 2019), participant of the IETM Global Connector 2021-22 program, and from 2022 member of Advisory Committee for this network. Participant of the European Cluster of Arts and Disabilities (from 2019) and co-host of it first meeting at The Hague.

Creator and performer in “Do what you want” – solo work in Teatr21, Warsaw 2023.  Co-worker of the choreographer and director Rafał Urbacki. As a performer in the plays “Protected Species” (Rozbark Dance and Movement Theater in Bytom, 2014); “Let the sun never shine on that day” (Fredro Theater, Gniezno, 2015) and as a creative producer in “The Worker’s Heart Drives Work” (Rozbark Theater, Bytom 2014). Contributor to book “Choreography: Strategies” (ed. M. Keil, J. Leśnierowska); in 2021 as performer in European project Danse l’Europe! in Angelin Preljocaj choreography.

In 2023 Artist in Residence in Warhouse9 (Kopenhagen, Denmark) and Skanes Dansteater (Malmo, Sweden). In 2024 Artist in residance in Hellerau – European Center for Perfoming Arts and Komuna Warszawa. Scholarship holder of the “Young Poland 2024” of the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage.