Michaela Rygrova
Michaela is a project manager of Greenfilming.cz, sustainability consultant in creative industries and artist. She is driven by a passion for culture, innovation, sustainability, art, communities and a better world. She is sustainability advisor for the European Theatre Convention, teaches Sustainability and Ecology in Arts at Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and gives lectures, workshops and talks in Czechia, Slovakia and on international platforms. In 2014 she published a book The Sustainable Theater.
Michaela comes from a production management and journalism background. She has worked with wide range of organizations and artists in: theater (Prague Quadrennial, Forman Brothers Theatre, National Theater); film (Czech Lion Awards, documentary movies Passage to passage, My Neighbour Killed Heydrich); arts Winton’s Trains exhibitions); casting and talent management; and produced conferences supporting ecological and social concerns. She was the first Burning Man Project Fellow and worked with its Global Network and conducted research within the European Community (including Middle East and Russia) to support its future and innovation, consulting in areas of production, logistics, security, communication, networking, relationship management, developing conferences and managing new educational programs.