Ivana Kováčová

She is a graduate of the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, majoring in acting. She
has been a member of the BDNR ensemble since 2007.

She has worked at Studio T.W.I.G.A. She cooperates with RTVS and also works at the J. L. Bella Conservatoire. She has guest starred in the Jonáš Záborský Theatre in Prešov, where she was featured in the play Faith, Love, Hope. For her performance in this play, she won the Literary Fund Award for acting performance in 2009. The Literary Fund also awarded her in 2008, 2015, 2017 and 2018. In 2020, she won the Literary Fund prize for her interpretation of the character of Mama Owl in the J. Tomlinson production The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark, and the character of Amarantha in X. Dragunska’s play The Mysterious Lighthouse. In 2022, she received the Literary Fund premium in theatre for her portrayal of the character of Penelope in Uršula Kovalyk’s adult production peneLope.

Featured in productions for children:
M. Kováčová: Toddlerium
M. Guśniowska: Bon Appetit, Wolf!
B. Schenková (after on Ch. Perrault): Puss in Boots
J. Tomlinson: The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark
J. Mokoš: About Clever Mouse and Two Lazy Tommy Cats
H.M. Mikosza: Forest Whispers
J. Tomlinson: The Little Hen Who Wouldn’t Give Up
M. Pecko: The first Storyteller

Featured in productions for adults:
B.S. Timrava, E.M. Šoltésová: Variations of Love
Iveta Horváthová: Europe in Correspondence
Various authors: The Theatre at the End of the World
Various authors: Fog / TУМАН
U. Kovalyk: peneLope