MarcinCecko

A poet, dramaturg, writer and actor, born in Warsaw in 1981. He was one of the founders of the group known as the neolinguists, alongside Maria Cyranowicz, Joanna Mueller, Michał Kasprzak and Jarosław Lipszyc, and a co-author of their 2002 manifesto. He published three volumes of poems, Rozbiorek (2000), Pląsy (2003) and Mów (2006), and ran a cycle of improvised performances at the Chłodna 25 cafe in Warsaw, where his readings met live music and video projection. In 2007 he headed the 3 Boys Move formation with Piotr Głowacki and Jan Dravnel.

He began in the theatre as an actor at Studium Teatralne in Warsaw, then co-wrote the text of its Parsifal in 2004 and played in it. With Natalia Korczakowska he worked on Solaris. Raport at TR Warszawa, after Stanisław Lem's novel. From 2009 he worked repeatedly with the director Krzysztof Garbaczewski: their Odyssey took the main prize at the m-teatr Confrontations in 2010, Death Star was staged inside a cinema in Wałbrzych with the audience watching a live relay of scenes played elsewhere, and The Sexual Life of Savages at Nowy Teatr, built on Bronisław Malinowski's pioneering anthropology, asked what a savage is in a postmodern world.

Their Ivona, Princess of Burgundia, for which he wrote the dramaturgy and the music, took two awards at the Divine Comedy festival in Kraków and the Grand Prix of the Opole Theatre Confrontations. In 2013 alone the pair made three productions: Balladyna in Poznań, A Gallery of Polish Kings at the Stary Teatr in Kraków and A Stone Sky Instead of Stars, staged for the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising by the Warsaw Rising Museum and Nowy Teatr. He also wrote the dramaturgy for Marcin Liber's Antigone and Fahrenheit 451.