Róbert Štefančík
Junior DramaturgeBiography
He was born in 1998 in Košice, Slovakia, where he studied acting at the Petr Dvorský State Conservatory. After graduation, he was accepted to study at DAMU (the Theatre Faculty of The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague), first in the field of theory and criticism, then in directing and dramaturgy under the guidance of Daria Ullrichová and Jan Nebeský. He graduated with the direction of Albert Camus' existential drama The Just and the dramaturg of R. W. Fassbinder's Blood on the Cat's Neck and M. von Mayenburg's Twilight of the Monsters: The Birth of the Apocalypse (both directed by Klára Vosecká) at the DISK Theatre.
He has completed internships at the Drama Ensemble of the National Theatre in Prague under the leadership of the directors Arthur Nauzyciel and Kamila Polívková, as well as master-classes in body and voice work led by members of Odin Teatret (Iben Nagel Rasmussen, Roberta Carreri, Kai Bredholt).
As a director and co-author, he has created original avantgarde projects such as Hladovím těsně vedle (Starving The Wrong Way) at Studio Řetízek, My děti z druhé ruky (We Second-Hand Children) at Eliadova knihovna in Divadlo Na zábradlí (under the banner of the initiative New Blood from DAMU), and Cukr druhý den nebolí (Sugar Doesn't Hurt the Next Day, co-directed with Klára Vosecká) at A studio Rubín. He occasionally publishes in the magazine Svět a Divadlo (World and Theatre).
Since the 2024/2025 season, he has been a junior dramaturge at the Drama Ensemble of the National Theatre in Prague, where he has so far dramaturgically prepared the productions Tři mušketýři a já (The Three Musketeers and Me, directed by Dmitry Krymov) and Don Quijote. Pustá země (Don Quixote. The Waste Land, directed by SKUTR).