Biography

Kuharski taught directing, performance theory, and theater history at Swarthmore College, where he founded the Department of Theater and served as Chair for twenty years. He co-founded and co-chaired Swarthmore’s study-abroad programs in theater and dance in Poland. He has taught at the Pig Iron School since 2012, and is a member of the Pig Iron board. He has received two Fulbright scholarships to Poland, one to study scenography with the experimental director/designer Józef Szajna, and the second as a research scholar at the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. His translations from Polish and French and have been widely performed in the US and abroad, his articles have been published in 7 languages, and he has lectured in the US, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and China.