Robert
Traczyk
Director
Playwright
about me:
Director, playwright, and writer. Graduate of Wrocław University of Technology and Directing at National Academym of Theatre Arts in Wrocław and a participant in the Story Masterclass program at Gotland Folkhögskola at Gotland Folkhögskola in Sweden
He combines the precision of analytical thinking with a sense of form and artistic sensitivity, which is reflected in his creative work.
He creates projects at the intersection of theater, literature, and performance art. He directs theatrical and paratheatrical performances, and writes plays, short stories, essays, and television scripts. In his work, he focuses on building coherent (though not always linear) dramatic structures, which he develops by exploring new, often experimental staging solutions.
His work has been featured in international artistic projects. He is the recipient of theater and literary awards and a scholarship recipient ZAiKS Authors' Association and the program "Young Poland". It is consistently expanding its activities, broadening their scope and forms of expression.
Once I was a Rose, today I rot in the sewer - Cultural and Art Center in Wroclaw, 2025, director, author of the text.
7 winters - Wroclaw Dance Theatre/Polish Theatre in Wroclaw, 2024, director
With the kennel ground - Collective Committee/Center in the suburbs of Wroclaw, 2024, director
NUnusual discovery of the Parrot - Lubuski Theatre, playwright. The play is taking part in the 30th Competition for the Exhibition of Polish Contemporary Art. The play Won the "LEONS" poll for the most popular play of the 2024/2025 season.
Explorations of the Artificial Soul - Grotowski Institute 2023, director, playwright, peformer
Come on, Word - Theatre "Kubuś" in Kielce, 2022, director,The play is taking part in the 29th Competition for the Exhibition of Polish Contemporary Art. The play won the poll for the most popular play of the 2022/2023 season, "Wystrzałowy Kubuś."
Kordian - "New Theater "Proxima" in Cracow, 2021, director
Influencer looking for a wife - Three chairs, 2021, director
Amazon Burns – IMPART art center, 2020, reżyser.
Scenario fot 3 actress - IMPART art center, 2020, director
Svietlana - Center for culture and art/Club der polnischen versager in Berlin, 2019, assistant director.
Our Class - AST in Wrocław, 2019, director.
Short interviews with nasty people - AST in Wroclaw, 2019, assistant director.
TanzGala - Grotowski Institute, 2019, director, writer.
Men's Perspective of Love - Grotowski Institute, Playwright.
Strangers in the City - AST in Wroclaw, 2019, director.
Good Troll - AST in Wrocław, 2019, director.
Birthday Dragon - AST in Wroclaw 2018, director.
Readings:
-Once I was a Rose, today I rot in the sewer, Eighth Day Theatre in poznan, author of the text, director
Stacks in the background - Night of the Museums in Wrocław, May 2023, director.
Martin, eternal Arthur - Kombinat Theater in Wroclaw, 2018, director.
Liberation - Jan Kochanowski Theater in Opole, 2018, director.
Fat Pig - Leszno City Theatre, 2020, director
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Texts:
Mr. Shrodinger's Strangers - Text published in the collection " It happens" published by the Alpaca publishing group. 2019.
Everygirl/Extragirl - Text staged at Piwnica pod Jaszczurami in Kraków, 2020.
TanzGala - Text staged at the Grotowski Institute, 2019.
Male Perspectives on Love - Text staged at the Grotowski Institute, 2019.
EveryBoy&ExtraGirl - The text was published in the competition anthology "Młod(sz)a Polska" (Youngest Poland) of the National Old Theater in Krakow, 2021.
About the girl who didn't have implants - The story won the main prize in the 2020 Crystal Dragons competition.
AskAPP - A performance staged at the Grotowski Institute in 2023.
TV:
Capital tales - 4fun kids 2022, scenarzysta.
Audio Drama, EveryBoy&ExtraGirl , -DCF/Kolektyw Komitet, playwright, director, 2024 – Radio play awarded in the “FONORAMA” competition
Prizes and awards:
Breaking the Form - The text was in the finals of the competitions:
– Script zONA (StoryLAB.pro)
– Best Script Award London
Vero&Roboty - Honorable mention in the competition for the design of the script of a film for children and young people named after Janusz Łęski! / Lower Silesian film team / 2025
Team award for the play WE WILL EAT YOUR CHILDREN. WITH ONION! at the 20th Festival of Contemporary Drama in Zabrze, 2021.
Gazeta Wyborcza's "It's worth it" award for the directors and the directors of the play WE WILL EAT YOUR CHILDREN. WITH ONION.
The main prize for the short story "About a girl who had no implants" in the Crystal Dragons competition, 2020.
Finalista konkursu dramatugicznego „Młod(sz)a Polska” w Narodowym Teatrze Starym w Krakowie z tekstem „EveryBoy&ExtraGirl”. Tekst znalazł się także w półfinale konkursu Scripters & CO international festival w 2025 roku oraz finale konkursu Cambridge Script Festival 2026 a słuchowisko na jego podstawie zostało wyróżnione w konkursie FONORAMA 2025
Show Death of a Squirrel-Men. Grand Prix at Entree Festival in Teatr Rozrywki w Chorzowie.
"Come on Word" - Kubus Theatre in Kielce, 2022. Director. Show is in 29th contest to stage modern polish play in Theatre Institute in Warsaw.
The production "Parrot's Extraordinary Discovery", in an audience poll, has been selected as the best play of the 2024/2025 season at the Lubuski Theatre in Zielona Góra!
ZAIKS grantee.
Grantee of the National Cultural Center's "Young Poland 2023" program.
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