Kinská, Martina (Czech republic)
Martina Kinská (* 1978) is a dramaturge and an author. She graduated from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (drama directing and dramaturgy). She studied drama theory and critique as well. She cooperated with professional theatres already during her studies. She also engages in film dramaturgy and script writing. She has been the dramturge of the Švandovo Theatre since 2005. She has prepared stage adaptations of many classical works (for example The Ratcatcher by Viktor Dyk in 2016 and others). In 2017 she worked as a dramaturge at the Brno Municipal Theatre (stage adaptation of The Last Goddess by Kateřina Tučková). She is also the author of an opera libretto The Nightingale And The Rose (2012, music by Jiří Hájek). Her first play Pankrác '45 opened in 2015. It takes place at prison of the same name where several eminent women meet at the end of the World War II. The play won 2nd to 3rd place for the best first staged Czech play of 2016 at the Theatre Critics’ Awards and in 2018 it was read at stage in New York at Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival in cooperation with the Czech Centre New York and The New School of Drama. It was also the first play that she directed herself. She later directed her own stage adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray (2018) in cooperation with Miřenka Čechová and the play The Agent (Agent tzv. Společenský, staged at the studio stage of the Švandovo Theatre) that she wrote together with Radek Schovánek and that won the Mark Ravenhill Award for the best production of a contemporary Czech play in 2019.