lighting designer
David Kachlíř was born in Brno, where he studied Electrical Engineering at a secondary vocational school. He’s been employed at Brno City Theatre since 1990, where he became interested in theatre lighting while working as a stage technician. In 1993 he became a lighting technician, and three years later was promoted to the post of Chief Lighting Technician.
David Kachlíř is a specialist in theatre and concert lighting, and regularly cooperates with Czech Television. He gained his great experience with a wide range of lighting design technologies and techniques partly while on work assignments abroad when the theatre’s musicals were touring in Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Holland and Spain. Alongside world-famous British producer and stage designer Simon Sidi (who has collaborated with Depeche Mode, Pink, Tori Amos, Annie Lennox and the American Idol television show), he created the lighting design for the 2010 T-music CHINASKI tour, which has still never been surpassed in the Czech Republic.
In 2011 the lighting design for the Brno City Theatre production Jekyll & Hyde gained him first place in a survey on the internet portal i-divadlo.cz in the category “other artistic achievement”.
He has created the lighting design for dozens of musicals and dramas, of which the most significant at Brno City Theatre are West Side Story, Cyrano de Bergerac, Amadeus, Koločava, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Cabaret, Hair, Oliver!, The Tempest, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Blood Brothers, Gypsies Go To Heaven, Fiddler on the Roof, The Witches of Eastwick, Fame, Evita, Jazz Side Story, Mozart!, Les Misérables, Spring Awakening, Mary Poppins, Pope Joan, The Name of the Rose, Chicago, Little Shop of Horrors, Jekyll & Hyde, Funny Girl, Zorro, Flashdance, Ghost, Dreamflight, Johnny Blue, The Gospel of Mary, Whistle Down the Wind, Stolen Laughter, Titanic, Chaplin, Saturday Night Fever and Imagine This…
