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Magdaléna Hniličková
(*10 November 1988 Karlovy Vary)
She spent her childhood in Karlovy Vary/Carlsbad, where she studied Pedagogical High School. After graduation she went to Ireland for six months, working as an au-pair.
Since 1988 she acts in Dagmar Theatre in Karlovy Vary, she has performed more than twenty roles there. She left for Prague to study Drama School (Vyšší odborná škola herecká) and she graduated in 2012. The main tutors of her class were Pavel Khek, a director, and an actor Tomáš Petřík.
She plays the recorders since she was eight and she gradually attends dance workshops. She spent three months as an apprentice in an international theatre company Farm in the Cave (Divadlo/The Theatre, directed by Viliam Dočolomanský), she performed as Ondina in a scenic reading in Divadlo na Vinohradech (Předvánoční absintová seance, directed by Lucie Málková), she took a part of Cecilie in Nebezpečné vztahy (Dangerous Liaisons, directed by Pavel Khek) in Městské divadlo v Mladé Boleslavi or a part of Mirjam in project Golem, appreciated by critics (directed by Ivo Kristián Kubák and Marie Nováková; this project was also a part of Prague Quadrienalle 2015). Recently you can see her in Činohra Karlovarského městského divadla/ Karlovy Vary Theatre (Konec strašidel ve Svatošských skalách) in Dagmar Theatre (Osm statečných, Anna...) or in Gong Theatre (Lakomá Barka, Ruské loto, Malá čarodějnice...).
For five years she studied English and American Studies at Charles University (she took an opportunity to try performing in English- John Mertlew's production of Shakespeare's The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice, a part of Elvira in Noel Coward's The Blithe Spirit, directed by Eva Bilská or as Longing in Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room directed by Jat Dhillon). She hates onion, loves chocolate and sometimes she transforms into a rum fairy (when nobody is watching).