Born in 1991, he graduated in philosophy and art history from the Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the Jagiellonian University and the Faculty of Directing and Drama at the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Cracow. He is a playwright, dramatist and theatre director as well as an academic teacher holding a Doctor of Arts degree. In 2021–24 he was deputy artistic director of the Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theatre in Cracow, and since 2024 he has been director of the Hieronim Konieczka Polish Theatre in Bydgoszcz.

He has notably directed Anna Wakulik’s Zofia at Warsaw’s Powszechny Theatre, Georges Perec’s The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise at Kalisz’s Bogusławski Theatre, Snow Queen at Gniezno’s Fredro Theatre, and The Tale of the Serpent’s Heart after Radek Rak’s novel at the Modrzejewska National Stary Theatre in Cracow, as well as several plays of his own: Arians (National Stary Theatre), Mosdorf. Reconstruction (Nowy Theatre in Poznań), Mazagan. The City (Jewish Theatre in Cracow), and Hibernation (Mały Theatre in Tychy).

Bukowski is the author of more than a dozen plays staged and awarded in Poland and abroad. He has held artistic scholarships from the Young Poland programme of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Nowy Theatre in Warsaw, and the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute’s playwright scholarship. He has been an artist-in-residence at Munich’s Residenztheater. His dramas frequently take up historical and biographical subjects, which become a pretext to comment on present-day reality. He also writes plays for children and teenagers, such as Grownup, A Play without Grandma, Andagain, Wyjątko (All the Wail), The City. As a dramatist, Bukowski has collaborated with artists such as Katarzyna Kalwat, Tomasz Kaczorowski, Judyta Berłowska, Waldemar Raźniak, and Joanna Grabowiecka, among others.