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Lenka Lagronová

Lenka Lagronová was born in Brno in 1963. Graduated from dramaturgy at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under supervision of Prof. Jaroslav Vostrý. She wrote several plays whilst still a student that were later staged in the DISK Theatre (e.g., Nouzov, U stolu). As a dramaturge, she has worked only with the director Petr Lébl at the Theatre on the Balustrades. She devotes herself to writing plays for the theatre and for radio.
She has written more than 25 plays that were staged, for example, in the Prague National Theatre, the Prague Comedy Theatre, Prague’s Vinohrady Theatre, the Činoherní Studio in Ústí nad Labem, the Uherské Hradiště Theatre, the Pardubice East Bohemian Theatre, the Viola Theatre in Prague, the National Theatre in Brno, the Andrej Bagara Theatre in Nitra, the JGT Zvolen Theatre, the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, and her play From dust of stars was produced as a staged reading at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. Repeatedly, her works were directed by Jan Nebeský, Štěpán Pácl and Radovan Lipus. Several times she was the finalist of the dramatic Alfréd Radok competition. In 1998, her play, Terezka, won the Alfred Radok Award, and in 2010 her play From dust of stars won the second place in the Drama Competition.
She also writes radio plays and fairy tales. Her radio play Get Up was awarded the main prize at the Grad Prix Bohemia radio play showcase.

Lenka Lagronová
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