Education
Studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.
Studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.
Worked as stage designer in the Plzeň City Theatre, also as designer in Skoda Engineering Works. In 1930 he set up the first modern professional puppet theatre. In 1933 he became the president of the International Puppetry Association UNIMA. During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, Skupa performed satiric and allegorical puppet plays on hundreds of stages all over Czechoslovakia.
After 1945, he moved his theatre to Prague.
He was praised as an official "national artist" during the Communist regime but he was criticised for his lack of political engagement. Therefore, Skupa focused on plays for children, and mime with puppets for adults.
He also performed abroad (Great Britain, Poland, France, Hungary, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics).