Swarthmore Theater Professor

Allen Kuharski

 Honored for Raising Awareness of Polish Theater Around the World

Ceremony: Thursday, October 19, 2006, 4:15 PM

Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences

26/28 Dluga Street, 00-950 Warsaw, Poland

Allen Kuharski, Chair of the Theater Department at Swarthmore College, Associate Professor, and resident director, has been named winner of the 2006 Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz Award by the Polish Centre of the International Theatre Institute – UNESCO in Warsaw. The award is given in recognition of his accomplishments in “raising awareness of Polish theatrical culture around the world.” Prof. Kuharski will travel to Poland in October as a guest of the Polish Ministry of Culture and the National Theater. He will receive a diploma and a sculpture by a contemporary Polish artist at an event held in his honor.

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