Leonardo Production
About Us
We have combined our experience, talent, and passion for art to create a production agency whose work will resonate with audiences, entertain them, and at the same time deliver quality, professionalism, and originality. We want to be a platform for new ideas, faces, and forms of expression. We build on experience, but we are aiming forward.
Jan Drbohlav
Screenwriter, director, writer
drbo.cz
Czech screenwriter, playwright, and writer, winner of the Elsa Award for Best Screenplay (In nomine patris) and the Arnošt Lustig Literary Award (Herz: Autopsy). He was nominated for a Czech Lion Award for his screenplay for the film Habermann's Mill, and his television films Ex offo, Gambit, and Swingtime also won awards. Among other things, he collaborated on the screenplay for the successful musical Rebelové and wrote the television series Kapitán Exner and Boží mlýny. The National Theater staged his adaptation of the film fairy tale Deváté srdce, and he made his debut as a novelist with the historical thriller Římská jízda. He directed the legendary Saturday night talk show Noc s Andělem (Night with Anděl) and several dozen audiobooks by leading Czech and foreign authors. He is a member of the professional organizations Association of Directors and Screenwriters (ARAS), Czech Film and Television Academy (ČFTA), and European Film Academy (EFA).
Petra Kopecká
PR specialist
An experienced PR professional who has been connecting the worlds of communications, media, and business for more than twenty years. During her career, she has worked for large financial institutions, international corporations, and renowned communications agencies. She has worked with dozens of clients throughout her professional career, ranging from large banks to retail and development groups to healthcare and automotive companies. This has enabled her to combine strategic thinking, media savvy, and creative ideas into a functional whole that works both in business and in the world of production. She has collaborated with Jan Drbohlav on several major events and provided PR support for the feature film Swingtime. Together, they are also the authors of several award-winning projects, including the unique flash mob "Open for Opera," which has won significant Czech and international PR awards (https://lnkd.in/gFjqSkC). In addition to PR, Petra also has a creative hobby: for more than 12 years, she has been involved in interior design and home staging under her own brand, Yourhome, where she transforms ordinary interiors into attractive and marketable properties. She also devotes her free time to educational activities at Společnost-E, where she works as a lecturer and gives talks to children and adults about what it is like to live with epilepsy.
Roman Štolpa
Actor, writer, teacher
romanstolpa.cz
Czech director, actor, screenwriter with Polish roots. He began his career as a musical director on the legendary production of the musical JCHS (assistant director) and co-directed the musicals Evita and Zorba the Greek (Spirála Theater and HDK Karlín). His independent productions have won numerous audience awards. His production of the musical Donaha! (The Full Monty) won the award for the most popular musical of the decade (VčD Pardubice), and the actors in his productions regularly receive awards for their performances (e.g., a broader nomination for the Thalia Award for the actress playing Funny Girl). He also directs rock operas (RockOpera Praha) and theatrical comedies (e.g., Divadlo Kalich). His productions are popular with audiences and have been in the repertoire for around ten years or more; the play Bez předsudků (Without Prejudice) at Divadlo Kalich recently celebrated 20 years since its premiere. As an actor, he became known thanks to the series Rodinná pouta (Family Ties) (TV Prima). While working on stage, he meets the best actors of different generations, gets to know them "up close," and is then able to perfectly utilize the potential of his colleagues in his productions, discovering their hidden possibilities. As a screenwriter, he has always focused on entertainment. For many years, he wrote the script for the Miss Czechia final evening (TV Nova) and the entertainment program Miss Století (TV Nova). He also participated in the direction and scriptwriting of the first seasons of the TV show Pomozte dětem (Help the Children), helping to adapt the BBC Children In Need show to this Czech show (BBC, then ČTV).
Matouš Dvořák
Writer, composer, marketer
matousdvorak.cz
Czech writer, translator, and composer, who also works as a webmaster for Leonardo Production and as a social media specialist at Ewing. He made his literary debut with the travelogue Pěšky z Paříže do Santiaga (On Foot from Paris to Santiago, CPress) and subsequently published the novellas Nejlepší člověk na světě (The Best Man in the World) and Fabrika Rasa (Talent Pro ART). His translation work draws on his academic background in modern Greek literature and includes translations of modern Greek poetry. Musically, he is involved in songwriting—his projects include the albums Opus 1–3 and the soundtracks Každá vteřina s Kateřinou (Every Second with Kateřina) and Little Women. In digital communication, he combines creative experience with practice in the online environment and is involved in website management, content, and brand communication.
We create stories that leave a lasting impression.
We believe that entertainment can be not only engaging, but also high-quality and artistically valuable. Our goal is to create television and film projects that not only entertain viewers, but also appeal to them—from spectacular commercial shows to music programs, musicals, and fairy tales to original formats with a distinctive visual and narrative style.
We build on a solid foundation of a personal
and professional approach to each project and client. For us, every collaboration is a partnership in which we seek the best way to realize a creative vision.
Our strength lies in our connections with other artistic fields – we collaborate
with talented creators from the worlds of music, theater, scenography, and screenwriting. Thanks to our long-standing personal contacts in the artistic world, we are able not only to assess the quality of the creators we approach, but above all to select those whose approach and style best suit a particular project.
We want to be a place where entertainment meets art, and where programs are created that viewers love – and creators can be proud of.