Daniela Špinar

Biography

After graduating from Acting and Stage direction at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Daniela Špinar has served as a guest director in many regional and Prague theatres with a great success; she was also briefly a resident director at the Theatre in Vinohrady, where her most famous production, Vojcek, was created. Furthermore, she collaborated with the independent theatre Letí. Before joining the National Theatre Drama, she collected all the domestic theatre awards, some of them repeatedly.

Since the 2015/2016 season (after Ivan Rajmont, Josef Kovalčuk and Michal Dočekal) untill 2021/2022 season she was the fourth post-1989 Artistic director of the National Theatre Drama. At this position, she evolved as an author and staged a number of his own dramatizations and text collages in addition to classics.  

In 2021 Daniela Špinar came out as a woman and started a process of gender transition.

Current productions at the National Theatre:

• Much Ado About Nothing (Estates Theatre, 2022)
• The Beauty and the Beast (National Theatre, 2022)
• Lunch at Wittgenstein (Estates Theatre, 2019)
• Beware of Pity (Estates Theatre, 2018)
• Pride and Prejudice (National Theatre, 2016)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (National Theatre, 2016)

To watch online on the National Theatre website:

• For Beauty (New Stage, 2019)

Last update: March 2022