Guy Roberts

Guy Roberts

ACTOR

Guy Roberts is the Founder, CEO and Artistic Director of Prague Shakespeare Company, the professional English language theatre of the Czech Republic. As an actor he has received international acclaim for his performances of Shakespeare's Macbeth, Richard III, Henry V, Hamlet, Benedick, Leontes, Sir Toby Belch, Jaques, Iago, Pericles, Mercutio, Edmund, Dogbery, and Puck as well as non-Shakespearean classical roles such as Mozart in Amadeus and the Poet in An Iliad. He has produced, directed and acted in over 200 productions and his work has been experienced onstage in the United States, Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Poland, Qatar and Egypt and has been honored with multiple awards and over 100 US theatre award nominations for Best Actor, Director and Production. He is a 2015 recipient of the Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Medal of Honor from the Masaryk Democratic Movement in recognition for his work promoting arts and artistic freedom. In 2014 Guy received the inaugural Sidney Berger Award from the Shakespeare Theatre Association in recognition of his dedication to the works of William Shakespeare. In 2016, under his leadership, PSC became the first professional theatre company in the world to present the entire newly accepted Shakespearean canon (41 plays including Sir Thomas More, Cardenio and Edward II as well as all the sonnets and poetical works) in a single year as part of the historic PSC400 Season. Recently he was honored with the 2018 Houston Theatre Award for Best Actor for his performance as the Poet in the Prague Shakespeare Company / Main Street Theater Company production of An Iliad (also recipient of Best Production, Costume, Set and Lights Award nominations), co-directed by Roberts and MST Artistic Director Rebecca Greene Udden.

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