JIRI FISHER created NO CURTAIN THEATRE in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1990 as a forum for international theatrical expression. Sold-out performances of Havel's play, "Audience," directed and performed by Jiri Fisher and Dick Stilwell at GW's Marvin Center Theatre, The Resident Associates Program of the Smithsonian Institution in the Baird Auditorium led to the theatre's founding. The same year Fisher toured his native Czechoslovakia with the production, followed by performances in New York, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre in New York City.
As the featured guest artist at GW in the Department of Theatre and Dance in 1990, he directed "Stars in the Morning Sky" by Russian playwright Alexander Galin.
JIRI FISHER was born in Czechoslovakia and studied at Janacek's Academy of Performing Arts, where he received his master's degree. He spent 12 years in Czech theatres and played numerous roles for television, radio and films. After arriving in the United States in l980, he starred in the NBC soap opera, "Another World," in the long running principal role as Anton Capek and also played on CBS' "As the World Turns." On stage, he played Vaclav Benda in the off-Broadway production of John Foster's play "Ceremony in Bohemia."