Lech Raczak

Lech Raczak
Lech Raczak (2016)
Born	(1946-01-27)27 January 1946 Poznań, Poland
Died	17 January 2020(2020-01-17) (aged 73) Poznań, Poland
Alma mater	Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Occupation	stage director
Years active	1964 – 2020
Awards	Swinarski Award (1993)
Honours

Lech Raczak (27 January 1946 – 17 January 2020) was a Polish theatre director and theatre practitioner.

Career

He studied Polish literature on Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He was one of the founders of the Theatre of the Eighth Day, which was one of the most original and most significant groups of the student theater movement from which Polish alternative theater arose. In 1993 Raczak and ensemble of the Theatre of the Eighth Day received the Swinarski Award. From 1995 to 1998 Raczak was an artistic director of Polish Theatre in Poznań and between 1993 and 2012 he worked for Malta Festival as an artistic director. Since 2003 he was a professor at University of Arts in Poznań.