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Janka Ryšánek Schmiedtová
Janka was born in November 1983 in Prague, Czech Republic. After graduating from Archbishop Gymnasium in Prague, and Lincoln High School in Portland - Oregon, Janka went to study Drama Directing at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno. During her studies she went to Lisbon and Glasgow on two exchanges programmes. Janka Graduated with theatre production Eva, Eva!.

Janka attended the literary drama Art School under the leadership of Dana Hlaváčová in Prague, and also organised the unique amateur theatre festival Jiráskův Hronov for several years.

Janka acted as Operational Director, in cooperation with the Brno Television (CZ), of Miss Prague Open 2009 (CZ). Janka also cooperated with Czech Radio, she authored the radio plays Kecy v kleci/Crap Talk in Cage and Vražda na třetím patře/Murder on Third Floor. Moreover, Janka contributes regularly to several Czech newspapers and magazines such as Otazníky historie/History Questions or Hospodářské noviny/Economic Newspapers. Janka directed the Brno Festival Carnival in 2011(1).

Sometimes Janka translates plays from English into Czech, as well as writing her own plays, for example Syndrom vztahu aneb Banální hra/Relationship Syndrome or Simple Game, for which Janka has won the Czech theatre award the Zlatá žába in 2008, or the drama Frida for which she won award of Evald Schorm in 2010.

Until recently Janka has been directing plays in following theatres:
 * Studio Marta, Brno, CZ Henrik Ibsen and Anna Saavedra: Hedda Gabler aneb Hra s mrtvou myší/Hedda Gabler or Game with a dead mouse; Anna Saavedra and Gabriela Preissová: Eva, Eva!; a team of authors: WWW - Dolů králičí norou/WWW – Down the Rabbit Hole
 * Theatre Šumperk, CZ Jan Werich and Janka Ryšánek Schmiedtová: Lakomá Barka/Stingy Barka
 * HaDivadlo, Brno, CZ Vendula Borůvková and Janka Ryšánek Schmiedtová: Modelka XXL/Model XXL
 * Městské divadlo Zlín, CZ Janka Ryšánek Schmiedtová: Frida/Frida Kahlo; Vlastimil Peška: Čučudejské pohádky/Stories of Čučudejs; Peter Shaffer: Černá komedie/Black Comedy
 * Zlín Private College of Art, CZ Jan Kraus: Nahniličko/Boiled
 * Divadlo Radost, Brno, CZ Janka Ryšánek Schmiedtová: Jak morčata pekla bábovku/How Guinea Pigs Baked a Cake(2); Karel Jaromir Erben and Vlastimil Peška: Dlouhý, široký a bystrozraký/The Tall, the Wide Eyed and the Big
 * Národním divadlo Moravskoslezké, Ostrava, CZ Anna Saavedra: Kuřačky/Smokers, premiere 28th March 2012

Under the auspices of the civic association Tripitaka Project, Janka directed social action theatre by author Anna Saavedra: Paso a paso - Cesta zraněného bojovníka/ Paso and Paso – The Journey of a Hurt Warrior.

Janka has been dedicated to theatre for all her life, with the exception of one moment, while writing an essay, when she suddenly felt the desire to be a professional tennis player instead(3).

Today, Janka is married, has a degree MgA and lives in Brno. She loves the spoken word, travelling and sushi. When is Janka not working, then she is looking for work.

All information and pictures about Janka gained in email conversation between Janka and author of this article between 27 February 20112 and 11 March 2012

(1) http://www.divadelnisvet.cz/en/mask-fiest-info (2) http://www.divadelnisvet.cz/en/how-guinea-pigs-made-cake (3) Story by Janka from email to the author of this article from 27 February 2012