Bartłomiej Ostapczuk
Poland
Actor-mime, director of mime theatre performances, author of choreographies, stage movement, mime teacher.
Artistic director of the International Mime Art Festival in Warsaw. The initiator and founder of the Warsaw Mime Centre, the Mimo Mime Theatre. He manages, implements, creates projects and artistic productions in the field of mime theatre, visual theatre and theatre education. Since 2005, he has been running the Pantomime Studio in Warsaw. He is a guest teacher of mime theatre in theatre schools in Poland and abroad. In the years 1998-2001, he was an actor at the Warsaw Mime Theatre and the Mime Studio. He studied theatrical art in Poland, USA and Spain. Since 1999, as an actor he has performed in more than 40 theatre productions.
Theatre creators with whom he has cooperated as an actor during theatrical performances include Robert Wilson, Lionel Menard, Anton Adasinski, Joahim Freyer, Petrem Bochac, Nicholas Johnson, Gregg Goldston, Leszek Mądzik, Mariusz Treliński, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Mikołaj Grabowski, Laco Adamik, Tomasz Konina, Waldemar Raźniak, Łukasz Barczyk, Jerzy Gruza. He has performed on the theatre stages of Japan, Puerto Rico, the United States, England, Germany, China, Lithuania, Russia, France, Poland, Israel, South Korea, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Spain, New Zealand, Portugal, Luxembourg, Sweden and Norway.
Winner of theatre awards and prizes in Poland and abroad, including: Grand Prix of the Festival of One-Actor Theatres (Warsaw 2003).
Best script and direction – Comedy Festival. Ukraine/Odessa (2014).
In 2020 he received the medal of the Mayor of the City of Lublin “in recognition of his achievements in artistic work and his contribution to the development of the Polish theatre stage”.
In 2022, he was awarded the Pro Mazovia medal “For outstanding merits and lifetime contribution to the Mazovian Voivodeship”.