Biography

Oleksandr Overchuk - artist-sculptor, scenographer of the Maria Zankovetska National Theater in Lviv.

He was born in 1960 in Lviv in the family of sculptor Anatoly Overchuk.

Graduated from the Lviv Academy of Arts in 1988.

One of the initiators and participants of the joint project of the Lviv branch of the National Union of Theater Actors of Ukraine and the Federation of Polish Organizations in Ukraine "stage-studio GALICIANA" (Lviv, 2000) - an experimental stage intended for staging plays in the Polish-Ukrainian border languages of both cultures.

Work in the field of sacred art (sculpture, stained glass, sacred design): Roman Catholic churches of Ukraine (Lviv and Lviv Diocese), Russia (Rostov-on-Don, Church of the Last Supper). For five years, he has been a participant in the SAKROEXPO International Scientific Conference (Kielce, Poland).

Author, among other things, of the poetry collection "Epistulae ad proximum" ("Letters to a Neighbor"), inspired by the work of Herbert Zbigniew (AULA publishing house, Warsaw 2013); the story "Skażony apokryf" ("Twórczość", No. 10, 2022).

He cooperates with Polish (in Płock Teatr Dramatyczny im. J. Szaniawskiego) and Czech theaters (in Olomouc and Český Cheszyn). His individual theatrical activity is represented by the monodrama "Holy Trinity Square", which is a staging of Bruno Schultz's works "Cinnamon Shops", "Sanatorium under the Clepsydra".

The play was staged at the Halychyna Studio Stage (2000), at the National Theater named after M. Zankovetska (Lviv, 2019), Theater named after E. Shanyavskyi (Plotsk, 2024).

Awards:

• "Deserved for Polish Culture" (2009)

• Bronze medal "Gloria Artis" (2019)

• Medal of the Family of Hetman I. Mazepa (2019)