Jan Jurkowski

Jan Jurkowski is a Polish stage, film and television actor, director, screenwriter, and editor. He is a co-founder of which publishes its productions on YouTube.

Biography

Jan Jurkowski was born in 1989. In 2013, he graduated acting from the National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków. While studying, he debuted on stage of the Bagatela Theatre in Warsaw in 2009. In 2011, performed in an audioplay of Polish Radio based on The Wedding. In 2013, he began performing in the in Kalisz, and in 2015, in the Łaźnia Nowa Theatre in Kraków.
In 2012, together with his classmate, Marek Hucz, he founded the Darwin Film Group, which begun producing short films publishef on YouTube, such as series Wielkie Konflikty, Szorty Darwina, Dziennik Internetowy, and Groovy Movie, among others. In 2016, they filmed television series Wielkie Teorie Darwina for TVN, and also released some of their miniseries on its streaming service, Player.pl. In 2017, they made episode "1%" for web-miniseries Little Black Mirror, as part of promotional campaign of Netflix television series Black Mirror. In 2021, they produced another series for TVN, titled Misja.
In 2019, Jurkowski and Hucz published book To koniec świata, in which they wrote about their works and unproduced stories of the Darwin Film Group.