Czech ASSITEJ Centre Award
The Czech ASSITEJ Centre Award is presented annually to a personality who has made a special contribution to the development of theatre for children and young people.
Laureates of the Czech ASSITEJ Centre Award
2025 – Nina Malíková
2024 – Pavel Vašíček
2023 – Zdeněk Pecháček, actor, long-time director of the Minor Theatre
2022 – Dora Bouzková, puppeteer, actress and performer, author and lecturer
2021 – Alois Mikulka, painter, sculptor, graphic designer, illustrator, stage designer, author of plays for children, fairy tales, poems and prose for children and adults
2020 – Janek Jirků, director, playwright and writer of children’s books
2019 – Jaroslav Milfajt, designer and scenographer, pedagogue
2018 – Irena Konývková, methodologist and educator
2017 – Michaela Homolová, puppeteer, director, pedagogue
2016 – Miloslav Klíma, dramaturg and university pedagogue
2015 – Stanislav Doubrava, long-time director of the Naive Theatre Liberec
2014 – Josef Krofta, puppet theatre director and university pedagogue
2013 – Marek Bečka, author, director, puppeteer, pedagogue
2012 – Karel Šefrna, author, dramaturg, director, designer, actor, musician, composer and lyricist, lecturer
2011 – Eva Machková, theoretician, historian, pedagogue, founder of the Department of Drama in Education at DAMU
2010 – Pavel Šrut, poet, translator, feyetonist, author of children’s books and song lyrics
2009 – Petr Nikl, painter, musician, writer, theatre artist and photographer
2008 – Jiří Vyšohlíd, actor, director and music composer
2007 – Alena Urbanová, dramaturg, theatre critic and theoretician, lecturer
2006 – Hana Franková-Hniličková, actress, director, author, pedagogue
2005 – Zoja Mikotová, author, director, teacher, founder of the studio of the Drama Education for the Deaf at the Faculty of Theatre JAMU in Brno
2004 – Iva Peřinová, playwright, dramaturg and puppeteer
2003 – Eva Tálská, director, scriptwriter, playwright, co-founder of the Goose on a String Theatre
2002 – Jan Borna, theatre director, poet and teacher associated with the Theatre in Dlouhá