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Guy Roberts is the Founder and Artistic Director of Prague Shakespeare Company, the professional English language theatre of the Czech Republic, celebrating its 19th year in 2026. He has produced, directed and acted in over 300 productions and his work has been experienced onstage in the United States, Czech Republic, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Slovakia, Poland, Qatar, Egypt, and India and he and his productions have been honored with multiple awards and over 100 US theatre award nominations, including many for Best Actor, Director and Production.  In 2016, under his leadership, PSC became the first theatre company in the world to present the entire newly accepted Shakespearean canon (41 plays including Sir Thomas More, Cardenio<\/em> and Edward III <\/em>as well as all the sonnets and poetical works) in a single year as part of the historic PSC400 Season. 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guy also travels extensively conducting Shakespeare and Leadership workshops training corporate executives and managers in the art of leadership using essential Shakespearean lessons as a model for dealing with modern-day corporate challenges. Click here to view Guy\u2019s TEDxYouth talk To Lead or Not To Lead: Changing the World with Shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guy can be seen as fan favorite Uno Nomesta in Amazon\/SONY\u2019s TV Series THE WHEEL OF TIME. He also staged the Opera sequences for the feature film CHEVALIER and the SKY-TV series AMADEUS starring Paul Bettany and Will Sharpe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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