Radovan Lipus


Radovan Lipus is theatre, television and radio director and teacher at The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague / THEATRE FACULTY (DAMU). He was born in 1966 in the Principality of Teschen. In 1992-2008 he worked as a drama director at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava. Then he was the director of Švandovo Theatre in Prague until 2010. From 2010 to the present day he has been a freelancer. In the theatre world, he has been a director from Pilsen to Košice, from puppets to opera, from independent site-specific performances to the golden portals of large drama theatres (National Theatre Prague, National Theatre Brno, Theatre at Vinohrady). He has almost a hundred productions and projects to his credit, which have participated in numerous festivals and won many awards.
He is also the author and director of his own television project Noisy Cities (Šumná města), in which he participated as a scriptwriter together with David Vávra (66 episodes in total). Together they also create the series Šumné stopy - Czech architects in the world (49 episodes filmed so far). The filming of the next episodes is currently underway in Switzerland. He is the writer and director of the documentaries Popatři, co skrývá Praha 3! (2010), Sladké Modřany (2017), Vy a Vysočany (2017) and others. For many years he has also been collaborating with Czech Radio as an author and director. He is the author of several books (Scenology of Ostrava, About a Sad FactoryPostcards from the Pacific)
Radovan Lipus is an active café lounger & passive larch wrapper.