Přemysl Janda
Biography
He started out as a designer of light commercials and shop lighting. He left this after two years and joined the Estates Theatre in mid-2002, where he became a lighting designer after three years of practice. During his time there, he worked with many important directors, set designers and lighting designers, including Ursel and Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Hartmut Schörghofer, Joël Lauwers, Etienne Pluss, Guy Roberts, Ivan Rajmont, Michal Dočekal, Daniela Špinar, Daniel Tesař, Robert Wilson, A. J. Weissbard and David Radok.
He has created light design at the aforementioned Estates Theatre, but also at the New Stage, and outside the National Theatre also at the Mahen Theatre, Theater La Monnaie / De Munt in Brussels, Théâtre de Caen – Opera House, Opéra de Dijon, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, the New Opera of the Slovak National Theatre, Opéra de Lille or Opéra Royal / Château de Versailles.
As a light designer, he emphasizes the functionality and dramaturgy of lighting design and the perfect technical execution of performances.