Mish Rais

Mish Rais is a Czech performer, dramaturg, researcher and teacher. As a performer, she cooperated with several Czech and international artists. As a guest lecturer, she has been invited to many Czech amateur and student dance and theatre festivals, professional Czech and international institutions and international festivals and conferences of various contexts (film and theatre, cultural psychology and other). As a member of CreWcollective company (since 2017), Mish Rais is involved in several projects in different roles. Her long-standing interest lies in improvisation as stage form, participative and pedagogical format (LAB4TOOLS). She studied linguistics (2011, MA), authorial creation and pedagogy (2015, MFA) and authorial acting, its theory and psychosomatics (2020, PhD.). She currently works as a pedagogue (since 2015) and as the Head of the Authorial Acting BA/MA Program (since 2020) at the Department of Authorial Creativity and Pedagogy at DAMU.