Jakub Drzastwa

Jakub Drzastwa is an organizer of cultural events, theatre tutor, coordinator of cultural and theatre projects, and author of stage design and music. He graduated from the Department of History at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Design Management within a post-graduate course ‘School of Form’ in Poznań. Between 2010 and 2015 he worked in the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw, where he coordinated five editions of all-Poland contest for staging Polish contemporary drama. He is the curator of the festival club of the Festival of New Dramaturgies in Bydgoszcz in 2016. In 2011–2012 he compiled the program of the festival club of the festival Warszawskie Spotkania Teatralne in Cafe Kulturalna. Drzastwa is the author of the object Tęczowa kominiarka (Rainbow Balaclava) designed for the 13th Prague Quadrennial, as well of the stage design and costumes for the performances directed by Justyna Sobczyk: Tu bi-Szwat (Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Teatr 21), Ciało pedagogiczne, Ojczyzna by Krystyna Miłobędzka in the Polski Theatre in Poznań. He founded the trademark ‘To też robot’, for which he designs and sews bags. During several editions of the festival Warszawskie Spotkania Teatralne he designed and made bags using banners as fabric – these became the official gadget of the festival.

As a musician he takes part in the performance Labirynt (Labyrinth) directed by Alicja Morawska-Rubczak.