Tereza Kopecká is a costume designer based in Prague. She studied History of Art at Charles University in Prague, as well as Costume and Mask Design at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She also completed a one-year exchange at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. In 2012–2013, she held artist residencies at the Watermill Center in New York under the direction of Robert Wilson, and at the Theatertreffen Internationales Forum in Berlin.
As a costume designer, Kopecká has collaborated with director Sláva Daubnerová on Ariadne auf Naxos and Manon Lescaut at the National Theatre in Prague, as well as on The Cunning Little Vixen by Leoš Janáček at the Slovak National Theatre – a production for which she received the Dosky Award for Best Costume Design.
She has also worked with director Veronika Poldauf Riedlbauchová on Nabucco and La traviata at the South Bohemian Theatre in České Budějovice. Other collaborations include work with the performance group Farm in the Cave (Refuge, Forever Together), and with director Jiří Havelka (Tonight We Don’t Play, The Elites) at the Slovak National Theatre.
In Berlin, she has collaborated with director Eva Schubert on Golden Matters and 120 Idiots, and with Hungarian director Gábor Hollós on Molière’s Tartuffe at the National Theatre in Szeged.