DAVID BAZIKA - BIOGRAPHY

David Bazika (1974) studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague and the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, in the Stage Design Department. He splits his work between television, film, architecture, and stage expositions, with a focus on stage design. He has collaborated on nearly fifty performances, both on large and small stages in Prague, Ostrava, Brno, Olomouc, Pilsen, and elsewhere.

His most frequent collaborators are directors Radovan Lipus (such as Elling and Kjell, You Are Probably Dreaming, Humble Boy, Once at Night Did She Return, The Play on Janácek, The Fool and the Nun, The Mother, Yvonne – the Princess of Burgundy), Juraj Deák (such as Funny Girl, Queen Margot, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Best Friends, Tea in Richmond, The Red and the Black, The Taming of the Shrew), Štepán Pácl (Elky Girls, West - the Orphan), Václav Klemens (such as Three Sisters, Jenůfa, Romeo and Juliette), Jiří Nekvasil (the operas Armida by A. Dvořák and Werther), Janusz Klimsza ( Bambini di Praga, The End of Carnival, Marat/Sade), Michal Lang (Dávníkové), David Drábek and others. Since the 2009/2010 season he has been the stage designer and the stage set manager of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava and a tutor at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.