COURAGE

connecting collections

Jenő Brogyányi was born in 1949 in Linz, Austria to Hungarian parents from Bratislava, Slovakia. He was two years old when his parents emigrated to the United States. After he had earned a degree in philosophy at New York University and then in architecture at the Cooper Union, he took up stage design. While he was working as a critic and translator, he also founded the Threshold Theater Company, a multi-lingual theatrical company putting Hungarian plays on stage in New York. His activities as a translator of poetic works at Columbia University were widely acknowledged at the international level, both in the form of prizes and in requests to write comprehensive basic works. Among other things, he translated the drama trilogy by András Sütő into English. He is the cofounder of the Committee for Human Rights in Romania. At HHRF he was responsible for being in ongoing contact with the press and for preparing the background materials for the advocacy activities.

Andrzej Brzozowski was a Polish film director and the head of the Artistic Board of the Warsaw Documentary Film Studio, as well as a long-time academic teacher at the Directing Department of the State Film School in Łódź. 
He directed the first Polish documentary on jazz - "The Jazz Conversations" (1957). His most appreciated productions include "This is an egg" (1966), "The Archeology" (1967), "An when king went to war" (1971) and "The 10 first days" (1973). Brzozowski directed also the short film "By the railroad" (1964), inspired by Zofia Nałkowska's "Medallions".

She graduated from the Theatre Academy in Warsaw with the specialization in Theatre Studies. 
From the beginning of her professional career, she has been involved in documenting and archiving the activities of the Polish theatres and performance groups. From 1997 she directed the Theatre Documentation Department of the Theatre Institute – firstly affiliated with the Polish Actors’ Union, then with Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute. An initiator of founding the Archive of Alternative Theatre in the same institution. 
An author of various books and articles about the Polish contemporary theatre scene. 
From 2014 a director of the Zbigniew Raszewski Institute.