Tomáš Ráliš

Tomáš Ráliš is a playwright and director from the Czech Republic, born in 1997. He is the only three-time winner of the prestigious Evald Schorm Award for Young Dramatists. This golden hat trick includes plays Sorex, 20/21 and Consumption of the Species. His debut play Safety Belts earned him a scholarship award at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York, which allowed him to attend classes at the Playwrights Horizons Theater School. Tomáš is currently working on several new plays in playwriting projects: in Fabulamundi, Playwriting Europe, under the auspices of Divadlo Letí, and in a residency at the National Theatre in Prague called Studio for New Drama and Drama Revival organised by the Czech Theatre Institute. In 2023, the Drama Panorama forum introduced him as the most promising Czech playwright of his generation with a staged reading of a translation of his play Sorex at the Neue Übersetzungen internationaler Dramatik in Berlin. In the same year, he received the Award of the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports for Outstanding Students and Graduates for his excellent academic results and numerous achievements in the field of theatre. Tomáš Ráliš has just been nominated for the Czech Theatre Critics Award as Talent of the Year.