THEATRE MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
JANÁČEK ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS, THEATRE
FACULTY
Study programmes concepts
Aim
To prepare theatre and stage managers, self-confident and effective members of creative artistic
teams.
The Theatre Management Department educates professionals for operation departments of
theatres and creative industries institutions. It benefits from its placement at a university of art
(or more precisely academy) at the Theatre Faculty of JAMU within which the studio develops
team work and cooperation principles. Interconnection between theory and practice and a
possibility of verifying theoretically acquired knowledge in managerial and staging practice
under teachers’ supervision seems optimal training both for a real and a research activity which
is a big challenge for specialized areas of theatre and stage technology.
Production Management
 Bachelor study – Production Management
I. Applicant´s profile
A graduate of a grammar school, business academy or other high school finished with
graduation exam. A person of broad horizons, interested in culture and performing arts,
especially theatre, and having an idea what an enterprise is. He/she is capable of logical
consideration and systematic thinking, understands a written text very well, is able to write a
clear text, is well versed in a system of a state, regions and municipalities and financing of
culture, has good formulation, presentation and communication skills, self-reliance, initiative
and creative thinking. He/she is visibly motivated for study/the field and inquiring (interest in
milieu, active searching for information on the study programme/school). He/she desires to
organize, cooperates with people and be a member of a team. He/she is able to work flexibly in
changing conditions and is proactive in seeking opportunities for his/her employment. He/she
speaks English at high school level minimally. User knowledge of information technology
necessary (office application as Word, Excel, PDF, internet, email client).
II. Graduate´s profile
We prepare theatre managers for middle management positions in theatres, able to work
independently in own agencies, persons with deep knowledge of leading working groups and
departments in a theatre, with a complex awareness of the theatre environment issues, with
good language skills and legal knowledge, specialized in management of artistic companies and
marketing departments of theatres and artistic agencies.
III. Competence in key areas
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theatre operation
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theoretic management
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project management
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marketing and fundraising
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political and legislative environment
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economics and budgeting
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practical production performances and their documentation
IV. Graduate´s employment
A graduate can find employment in the following professions: marketing manager in theatres of
all kinds, art company manager, theatre secretary, manager in artistic agencies, theatre director
assistant and project manager of cultural projects. He/she is able to found own agency.
 Master study - Producing
I. Applicant´s profile
A graduate from bachelor theatre management study programme at Theatre Faculty JAMU or
related bachelor study programme at JAMU or other university whose bachelor thesis,
documentation of a bachelor graduation project and seminar papers and managerial
performances portfolio show extraordinary quality and whose intent of further study (theme of
a diploma theses and a graduation project proposal) proves high level of managerial thinking in
the field of broader cultural management and demonstrates expected ability to reflect
theoretically practical phenomenon appearing in cultural management and cultural projects. An
applicant fulfils requirements for strategic (producers) thinking, is capable of abstraction,
analysis and synthesis and understands fully a creative process and work of a creative team. At
presentation of intent of study, summary of diploma thesis and intent of graduation project an
applicant proves his/her ability to present, communicate and express ideas clearly,
comprehensibly and in a structured way. He/she is visibly motivated for study/the field and has
a clear vision of future professional employment. He/she speaks English at advanced level.
Information technology knowledge exceed the level of a common user competences
substantially (ability to work with freeware and presentation programmes, ability to
administrate websites, use the internet environment for team work, sharing documents and
marketing purposes).
II. Graduate´s profile
We prepare theatre managers going beyond theatre management and understanding general
cultural management (art management); professionals with deep knowledge of shaping and
management of a theatre, position of theatre in society, foundation activities, NGO financing in
the Czech Republic and abroad, well informed about foreign management while reflecting
history and tradition of European theatre and relating management, with excellent language
skills enabling perfect communication and cooperation with foreign partners, with
extraordinary legal awareness and deep knowledge of theatre issues (theatre theory and
technology).
III. Competence in key area
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trends in management
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strategic management
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multi resource financing
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management of grants and subsidies
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international environment
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public relations
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study visits in partner organisations
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practical performances and their documentation
IV. Graduate´s employment
A graduate can find employment in the following professions and areas: producer of a festival,
top management in a theatre, top manager - producer of cultural projects, top marketing
manager in a theatre, top manager in a cultural agency, top manager in state administration and
self-government in the field of culture. A graduate can use his/her education in: Czech and
foreign theatres of all kinds, artistic agencies, Czech and international cultural projects, an own
agency, state administration and self-government bodies.
Stage management
 Bachelor study
I. Applicant´s profile
A graduate of a high school finished with graduation exam. A person of broad horizons,
interested in culture and performing arts, especially theatre, and having an idea what an
enterprise is. He/she is capable of logical consideration, understands a written text very well, is
able to write a clear text, is well versed in a system of a state, regions and municipalities and
financing of culture, has good formulation, presentation and communication skills, selfreliance, initiative and creative thinking. He/she is familiar with mechanics, electrical
engineering and electronics at the grammar school graduate level minimally. He is visibly
motivated for study/the field and inquiring (interest in milieu, active searching for information
on the study programme/school). He/she speaks English at high school level minimally. User
knowledge of information technology necessary (office application as Word, Excel, PDF, internet,
email client).
II. Graduate´s profile
We prepare theatre managers able to manage artistic-technical departments in the fields of
stage lighting (senior electrician), stage sound (senior soundman) and stage set (head set
builder) or to manage all these artistic-technical professions in a theatre (the head of artistictechnical operation of a theatre - stage manager), persons with a complex awareness of the
theatre environment issues, with good language skills, specialized in theatre artistic-technical
fields (light, sound, stage set), able to found and manage agencies offering services in the above
mentioned fields.
III. Competence in key areas

theatre operation
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management
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light, sound, set
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basis of project management
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basis of law
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technical skills
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practical performances and their documentation
IV. Graduate´s employment
Graduates can find employment in the following professions: self-governing electrician, selfgoverning sound man, senior electrician, senior sound man, head set builder, stage production
manager, stage manager in a theatre, stage manager at a theatre project and stage manager at
projects which change non-theatre spaces into theatre venue. Graduates are able to found and
manage agencies in the above mentioned fields. A graduate can find employment in the
following institutions: theatres of all kinds, cultural houses, cultural agencies, private companies
realizing cultural events, television, film industry, music industry, recording companies,
companies realizing sets for cultural events, exhibitions etc.