Stanislav Moša

After obtaining a GCE, he went on to study first at the Ostrava State Conservatory (music drama), subsequently to pursue his education at the Janáček Academy of Music in Brno (drama stage direction), the city where he has lived since 1978. Upon graduation, in 1983, he took up a job as resident stage director at the Mrštík Brothers Theatre. From 1984–1994 he was a teacher at the Janáček Academy, a post which he combined during three years with work as the artistic director of the Janáček Academy’s Drama Studio, MARTA. In 1990 he became artistic director at the Mrštík Brothers Theatre, and in 1992 was appointed director of the Municipal Theatre in Brno. As a stage director, he has to his credit over seventy productions mounted both at Brno and at other theatres in this country, as well as on the international circuit: in Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, and Slovakia.

He has also been active as an author, in that field earning particularly wide acclaim for his stage adaptation of the novel by Ivan Kříž, The True Story of the Destruction of Sodom. His best known literary works include the texts for the musical, Dreams of Midsummer Nights; the stage oratorio, The Bastard; and the musicals, Babylon; A World Full of Angels; and most recently, the musical fairy-tale, The Garden of Wonders – all written and staged in collaboration with composer Zdenek Merta.

During his tenure as director of the Municipal Theatre in Brno, he scored a genuine tour de force when, on October 1, 2004, he presided over the official opening of the Contemporary Music Scene, the Municipal Theatre’s second permanent home stage, a project which he both conceived and put into practice.