Between 1978 and 1981, he wrote theatre reviews under the alias Jan Koniecpolski..[1] First in student journals, and later in a popular weekly journal “Polityka.” He has worked as a literary manager, director, and dramaturge with various theatres in Warsaw, Kraków, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, Kalisz and Białystok.
[2] He is also often inspired by myths and folk tales, specifically pertaining to the eastern Polish border region.
[7] Our class is an attempt to understand how violence comes to be, and the play does this by depicting the lives of the victims and oppressors of the Jedwabne Pogrom in 1941.
[10] Most recently he has written and published a collection of plays for four actors, called Kwartety Otwockie (Otwock Quartets) in which he portrays and distorts the history of the 20th century theatre.
[11] His plays have been translated and staged in many languages, including English, German, Hebrew, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech, Slovakian, Slovenian, Serbian, Macedonian, Romanian, Hungarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Persian, Kazakh, Mongolian, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese.