In 2015, he worked with Marcin Liber on a new play Mrs Koma is Coming! at the PWST Theater in Kraków and accepted a position as resident dramaturg at the Nowy Theater in Łodź. In addition to his work in the theatre, he is an active columnist writing for Gazeta Wyborcza Wrocław and has published work in Krytyka Polityczna, Theatre Notebook, and e-teatr.
Other recent projects include Mordor Will Come and Eat Us in Lublin, Sławomir Mrożek’s Vatzlav in Łodź, and Alice: Under Any Circumstances Don’t Go There in Gniezno, directed by Justyna Łagowska.
At twenty-three, Michał Kmiecik already established himself as a theatre artist to watch. While frequently delighting in making provocations on the stage, there is another current, perhaps born out of the rootlessness of his home city, that finds him seeking out older masters, and perhaps a home of his own.
I have spent a lot of time working with forty year-olds, and although it’s been wonderful, and I have learned a great deal, I want to return to my own work, and to direct more. I am currently obsessed with Sławomir Mrożek and have been reading all his plays. None of the forty-somethings I work with would ever consider directing him and this excites me. He is a wide open field!