🎤 Jan Komárek

About

Jan Komárek is a Czech lighting designer, theatre director and musician born in 1953 in Prague. In the 1980s he emigrated - first to France, where he founded the puppet company Mimo Theatre, then to Toronto, where he built the visual-movement theatre Sound Image Theatre and won several Dora Mavor Moore Awards. Back in Prague since 2001, he creates his own movement pieces in which light is a full creative partner rather than a backdrop. He has a long-running collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miltnerová.