Daniela Špinar (b. 1979) studied acting in parallel with directing at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU). After graduating, she directed productions at numerous regional and Prague theatres, for which she received prestigious awards. Her work spans a wide range of genres, from drama to opera and musicals to physical theatre and modern circus. From 2015 to 2021, she served as the fourth post-revolutionary artistic director of the National Theatre’s Drama Company, where, in addition to classics, she also staged a number of her own dramatizations and text collages. To date, she has directed some seventy productions.

At Flora, the festival audience has had the opportunity to see a diverse selection of her works: from her direction of the contemporary plays Britney Goes to Heaven and My Romantic History (both Divadlo Petra Bezruče, Ostrava), the stage collage Cabaret Kafka (National Theatre Brno Reduta), or her interpretations of the classics Woyzeck (Divadlo na Vinohradech, Prague), The Seagull (Městské divadlo Kladno), and Hamlet (Švandovo Divadlo, Prague). This year, Flora Theatre Festival will feature her production for the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc – the opera Tosca.