Jakub Kopecký
Biography
After graduating from the Václav Hollar School of Fine Arts, he studied scenography at the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre at DAMU.
He regularly collaborates with the directing duo SKUTR: Nickname, Understand, and Duší dítě at the Archa Theatre; Seagull, The Dream in the Red House, Letters to Olga, Master and Margarita, and The Magic Flute at the Dlouhá Theatre; Heroes, Don Giovanni, Human Locomotion, The Blood Wedding and A Bouquet at the National Theatre, Radúz and Mahulena and The Cunning Little Vixen at the National Theatre in Brno, Men at the Ponec Theatre, Swan Lake, Eugene Onegin, The Foam of Days, The Karamazov Brothers and The Marriage at the Klicpera Theatre, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest for the Summer Shakespeare Festival, The Excursions of Mr. Brouček and La clemenza di Tito at the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre, Woyzeck at the Josef Kajetán Tyl Theatre, The Child and the Spells and The Cunning Little Vixen at the South Bohemian Theatre and The Army House of Culture in Legnica, Poland.
He designed sets for Jan Kodet (The Sorcerer's Apprentice and The Little Mermaid at the National Theatre), Jiří Austerlitz (Tiká, tiká, politika a Europeans at the NoD Theatre, Po sametu / After Velvet at the National Theatre), Jiří Nekvasil (Pericles at the Klicpera Theatre, The Rape of Lucretia and The Kiss at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre), David Drábek (The Wonderful Journeys of Jules Verne, Jonny Wins at the National Theatre, Unisex at the Klicpera Theatre, Cannibals: Twilight of the Males at the Moravian-Silesian Theatre), the DOT504 ensemble (Muh Hunt and The Perfect Day at the Ponec Theatre), Cirk La Putyka (Dolls and Honey at the Jatka78 Theatre), Lenka Vagnerová (Gossip, Panoptikum at the MDP, Robin Hood and The Snow Queen at the Minor Theatre) and Janek Jirků (ZÁ-TO-PEK! and Brothers of Hope at the Minor Theatre).
He collaborated with director Jiří Nekvasil on the television adaptation of Bohuslav Martinů's chamber opera What People Live By.
He has received numerous awards for his work to date and was nominated for the 2006 Alfréd Radok Award for his production of Heroes (National Theatre).
Last update: February 2026