
Daniela is a sophomore in the Drama Direction program at the Theatre Faculty JAMU. She graduated from a literary high school named after Josef Škvorecký, the famous Czech writer exiled after the Soviet invasion of 1968. While in high school, she successfully auditioned for a newly established ensemble at Švanda Theatre and directed her first play. With the one-actor play called This Is Not Your Karenina, based on the Tolstoy novel, she won the first prize at the Spoleto International Theatre Festival in 2019.
The award includes a two week residency at Barnard College, Columbia University, visits to New York theaters, and other cultural exploration of the city. The play Racks will be presented as a stage reading at the Salonof Original Writings at JAMU on March 5 – 6, 2021.
The jury members included:
Dodo Gombár – playwright, director and lecturer at JAMU
Klára Škrobánková – historian, theater theorist and lecturer at JAMU
Hana Hložková – dramaturge at the National Theater in Brno
Barbora Jandová – dramaturge at Horácké Theatre in Jihlava, lecturer JAMU
Jan Šotktovský – playright, dramaturge at Brno City Theatre and lecturer at JAMU
From the judges:
“The play reflects a Havelian world and at the same time shows in a unique way the image of our near future. Engaged dystopia that simultaneously playfully denies the cliché of engaged dystopia. The play particularly evokes how Czech the current COVID nightmare is – the apocalypse is over, people have accepted it with apathy, they have settled in the postapocalyptic world and got used to it.”