David Bazika
David Bazika (1974) studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague and stage design at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Since 2010, he has been the resident stage designer of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre, where until 2025 he also served as Head of Sets Production. He is the author of the concept for a planned rehearsal and alternative performance space to be created through the conversion of the exhibition pavilion at Černá louka in central Ostrava. Since 2024, he has also been part of the management team of the Smetana Litomyšl festival. As stage designer he worked in about thirty theatres here in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia. As a complementary work to stage design, he welcomes stage-architectural designs and realizations of museum expositions (Ringhoffer Brewery in Velké Popovice, The World of Mammoth Hunters – Přerov Předmostí, Who are the People in the Hlučín Region, eco-technical centre Alternátor in Třebíč). He likes large theatre spaces, chamber cinema-halls, and the Czech Radio Plus. And even more than these, he likes open nature, mountains under snow, and skis on his feet. He has been closely associated with both the NODO and Ostrava Days festivals as the creator of numerous unique stage productions.
