Two years ago, he enchanted Flora's audience with his adaptation of Édouard Louis’ novel Who Killed My Father starring Daniel Krejčík – Jakub Čermák (1980). The multi-talented director, actor and performer became known mainly as the frontman of the art gang Depresivní děti touží po penězích (literally “depressed children long for money”), which announced its dissolution last year. Its members have since established themselves as respected artists.
Čermák has managed to organically break the poetics of the almost underground platform into productions that he has staged with extraordinary acclaim in municipal theatres, such as Horácké divadlo Jihlava or the South Bohemian Theatre in České Budějovice, of which Čermák has been the artistic director since 2025.
Jakub Čermák also works as a dramaturge of the Prague cultural venue Venuše ve Švehlovce and organizes the WILD! festival – the only queer theatre festival in the Czech Republic. He studied directing at FAMU and DAMU in Prague and, thanks to a scholarship from the Robert Bosch Foundation, he spent a year at the Forum Freies Theater in Düsseldorf and participated in the International Youth Forum of the Berliner Theatertreffen.
His work includes updated retellings of classic dramas as well as documentary, immersive and experimental theatre. On stage, he is fascinated by sexuality because it affects us all, whether we want it to or not. He considers theatre to be communication, so although he is associated with the bizarre and the eccentric, he does not seek to shock or disgust the viewer in the first place, but rather to stimulate an inner discussion and a desire to discover.

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