Petra Tejnorová (1984), an untiring searcher for new methods and fusions and a well-known figure in the alternative theatre world, finished her studies in directing in 2009 at the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre with her production of Shakespeare's tragedy Titus Andronicus (The Flight of a Fly) and she currently teaches there.
The director experiments with physical and documentary theatre, researches the various possibilities in the performer versus audience relationship. She focuses on collective creation in the authorial projects, devising methods and perception of theatre production as a unique event. She also studies the genre of live cinema – a combination of theatre and film, for example, in a story based on real events called NICK (2015), Putin’s Agents (2019) or the mystery detective story Love and Information (2016, New scene of the National Theatre) created by the method of found-footage, montage of a story based on film fragments. Her international projects were invited to prestigious festivals. Ongoing collaboration with dancer Tereza Ondrová led to the founding of the Temporary Collective.

She has been approached by a number of prominent Czech theatres and ensembles to collaborate—including Dejvické divadlo, HaDivadlo, Divadlo Archa, PONEC, Jatka 78, and the 11:55 and VerTeDance companies. For the National Theatre, she created the productions Edge and TimINg, Estate Theatre to the Nation, and (late last year) an adaptation of Frankenstein. In 2020, she directed the first volume of Knausgård’s hexalogy My Struggle I, subtitled A Death in the Family. She cast brothers Saša and Václav Rašilov (Meet Factory) in the lead roles of the brothers coming to terms with the loss of a loved one.

At the Flora Theatre Festival, she has previously staged productions of Titus Andronicus (The Flight of the Fly), Edge, Osobní anamnéza (Personal Anamnesis) and You Are Here.