Michał Buszewicz (born 1986) – Playwright, playwright, director. A graduate of the drama studies specialization in Theater Studies at the Jagiellonian University and drama studies at the Drama Directing Department of the PWST in Krakow. He is the author of the texts: Crime, Mission, Peter Pan based on James Barrie's novel, Jewish Actors, Resort, A Few Foreign Words in Polish, Cowboys, Tamara's Return. He was a semi-finalist and finalist of the Gdynia Drama Award. He is also a laureate of the Young Artist Award at the Nowy Teatr Festival and the Stanisław Bieniasz Medal at the Reality Presented Festival. He willingly undertakes collective work leading to the creation of a script for a performance with the use of actor improvisations. The result of such a formula of work was Erasmus as part of the European Ensemble project and Slow motion at the Lithuanian National Theatre, both directed by Anna Smolar. As a playwright, he also collaborated with Ewelina Marciniak, Anna Augustynowicz, Jan Klata, and Cezary Tomaszewski. He also directs his own theatrical projects - he has produced the performances A Matter of Technology, Telephone Book, Fans, Autobiography just in case and Orfi based on his own scripts. In 2015-2016, he was the director of playwrights at the National Stary Theater in Krakow. He conducted a drama workshop as part of the studies of Performing Arts at the Jagiellonian University, as part of the Laboratory of New Theater Practices at SWPS, Knowledge about Theater at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, he was a mentor in the project of the New Drama Stage in Rzeszów, and he also collaborated many times with the organizers of theater and drama workshops for youth and adults. He is a member of the artistic collective Institute of Performing Arts in Warsaw.
