Konrad Ksawery Swinarski (4 July 1929 – 19 August 1975)[1] was a Polish theatrical, television, film and opera director and stage designer.

His father was lieutenant colonel Karol Świnarski [pl], and his mother was Irmgarda Liczbińska, who came from a Polish-German Silesian family.

He debuted solo by directing Żeglarz (The Sailor) by Jerzy Szaniawski, premiering 14 May 1955 in Wojciech Bogusławski Theatre in Kalisz.

In 1966 he was a laureate of Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński Award [pl] for a staging of The Undivine Comedy in Stary Theatre and for A Dangerous Game in Teatr Telewizji [pl] teleplay, and West German Theatre Critics Award in 1964 for the world premiere of Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade at the Schiller Theater in Berlin, and Vladimir Mayakovsky's The Bedbug.

Those included his most famous work, novel and innovative staging of Dziady (Forefathers Eve)[8] by Adam Mickiewicz, premiering 18 February 1973.

On 19 August 1975 Swinarski died in ČSA Flight 540 accident of Ilyushin Il-62 that crashed during attempted landing near Damascus.