Which dramas will win a Prix Bohemia Radio Award? Five experts will decide
Artists, directors and writers. These are the five members of the international jury that will decide which of this year’s drama entries wil bring home a Prix Bohemia Radio award.
This year’s jurors for the Drama category include Hana D. Lehečková.
She was born in 1990 and comes from South Bohemia. She graduated in Theory and Criticism from the Theatre Faculty of Prague’s Academy of Performing Arts. She made her debut as a writer in 2012 when she won a drama competition at the Švanda Theatre in Prague which staged her play V(ý)chod (Entrance/Exit). Apart from her theatre work she also writes for Czech Radio (Johana and the Dream Factory, What Happened to Zuzana, Why is Max like this, etc.). Her series The Space Voyages of Julie the Comet was broadcast on Czech Radio as the first ever live reading of Hajaja (i.e. bedtime stories for children). In 2020 she received the Jiří Orten Prize, a prestigious award for young writers under 30 for her psychotic novella Svatá hlava (Sacred Head). Her autofiction novel Poupátka (Buds) also achieved wide recognition. She works as a literary editor for the Albatros publishing house.
The second juror is Michal Sieczkowski. He was born in 1978 in Lodz. Graduated at Theatre Academy in Warsaw (2001). He was a trainee in directing at KALD DAMU (2001/03) and a PhD student at the Department of Slavonic Studies at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw (2003/04).
He has collaborated with prominent directors such as Krystian Lupa and Krzysztof Warlikowski. He held the post of artistic secretary at Teatr Polski in Warsaw, where he also directed. During the Polish year he created several programmes for ČRo Vltava.
He translates from Czech, Slovak and Russian into Polish and from Polish into Czech. He has translated, among others, Forman's Love of a Mermaid, Passer and Papoušek, J. Havelka's The Owners, D. Majling, M. Wojtyszek's One More Moment for the National Theatre in Prague and the libretto of Janáček's opera From the Dead House.
Since 2020 he has been the chief producer of Audioteca. Together with Tereza Nováková, he has been leading a seminar on audio production at the FAMU Department of Screenwriting since 2021.
A grand total of twenty two jurors will be deciding the winners of the 40th annual Prix Bohemia Radio festival awards. National and international radio professionals will sit on each of the juries for the documentary, drama, news report and podcast categories and decide which works will reach the main competition.
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Leading Czech director, playwright and poet. Martin Františák is also the artistic director of Švanda Theatre in Prague from the 2019/2020 season.
Martin Františák was born on 5 March 1974 in Valašské Meziříčí. He has been a member of the indie-punk rock bands Hilda Sutherskillová and Nic složitýho (Nothing Difficult) since his high school days at the local František Palacký Gymnasium.
At the Theatre Faculty of the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts (JAMU) in Brno, he studied Drama in Education and then Theatre Directing, but above all he met a number of personalities who were key to his further work: Alexey Pernica, Arnošt Goldflam, Zoja Mikotová, Pavel Švanda and others.
The fourth seat on the jury will go to Daniel Kordík. He co-founded the experimental music collective Urbsounds in Bratislava in 2001. He moved to London in 2004, where he continued to work in experimental electronic music, mainly in the Jamka project, whose composition 'Wild Rose Trees' was included in 2013 on the compilation 'An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music' by Sub Rosa, mapping experimental music since 1930. While in London, he worked for a company responsible for audio-visual communications for UCL's 18 libraries. He was also part of London's free improvising scene. In 2013 he co-founded the Earshots Recordings label. He is one of the dramaturgs of the Bratislava NEXT Festival and its label NEXT Festival Records. He has been nominated 3 times in various projects within experimental music for the Radio_Head Music Awards and won this award 2 times - in 2020 for his album 'MimoSoto', on which he collaborated with Japanese improviser Ken Ikeda, and in 2022 for his solo album 'Ocela'. He has been living and working in Prague since 2023.
Saška Rakef is a playwright and director. She is interested in the influence of emancipated musical composition on the method and aesthetics of directing. She researches sensorial language, a physical experience invoked by sound including the sonority of words, the staging methods translating the principles of musical composition into directing and dramaturgy procedures, and the writing processes of contemporary text for radio and theatre.
An important part of her creativity is content for babies and infants. She is a project leader of the B-AIR project consortium, exploring how people and the surrounding world conceptualize and experience sound; connecting artistic, scientific and journalistic methods of research and creation https://b-air.infinity.radio/en/about/. She works as a radio director at Radio Slovenia. She teaches radio play and radio directing at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, Ljubljana. A variety of domestic and foreign festivals have showcased her work, for which she has received several nominations and awards (Prix Italia Special Mention, Branislav B Cubrilović Award, Prix Marulić, nominations for Prix Europa, Palma Ars Acustica and more).
