I am a Hungarian theatre director based in Berlin. For over twenty years, I served as a co-founder and member of the artistic board at the Örkény Theatre in Budapest, Hungary, a significant and inspiring stage, which I left in 2025. Since 2010, I have directed and participated in numerous international productions across Europe, including in Germany, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania and Serbia.
I specialize in innovative adaptations that examine patriarchal structures, power dynamics, and contemporary social issues. I am known for feminist reinterpretations and collaborative, multidisciplinary productions that integrate video design, live music, and choreography. My work consists of musical-poetical performances that often incorporate documentary material, characterized by a balance of playful, spontaneous acting, strict formal structure, and intense, essential visuality.
Productions as a director:
Die Marquise von O. und - , Deutsches Theater, Berlin, 2025
Gisela Elsner: Heilig Blut, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Germany, 2025
Andrea Tompa: We do not often die, Örkény Színház, Budapest, Hungary, 2025
Michael Ende: Momo, Schauspiel Köln, Germany, 2024
Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment, Budapest, 2024
Ferenc Molnar: Liliom, Daile Theater, Riga, Latvia 2023
Camus: Caligula, Göteborg Stadsteatern, Sweden 2023
Ibsen: Solness, Örkény Színház, Budapest, Hungary2022
Magda Szabó: The Door (Az ajtó), Örkény Színház, Budapest, Hungary 2022
Lukas Bärfuss: Luther, Nibelungenfestspiele Worms, Germany, 2021
Ionesco: The Rhinoceros (Degunradzi), Dailes Theatre, Riga, Latvia, 2021
Racine: Andromache, Örkeny Theatre, Budapest, 2020
Lukas Bärfuss: Who is Schmitz? (Vem är Schmitz?) Göteborgs Stadsteatern, Göteborg, Sweden, 2019
Shakespeare: Macbeth, Örkény Theatre, Budapest, 2019
Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie (Die Glasmenagerie), Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe, Germany 2018
Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis (Az átváltozás) Örkény Theatre, Budapest, 2018
Ödön von Horvath: Faith Love Hope (Hit, szeretet, remény) Örkény Theatre, Budapest, 2017
Thomas Mann: Joseph and his brothers (József és testvérei) Co-direction with Tamás Ascher, Örkény Theatre, Budapest, 2017
Friedrich Schiller: The Robbers (Rablók és gyilkosok – Haramiák) Szabadkai Népszínház (State Theater, Subotica, Serbia) 2016
Csaba Mikó: Fatherless (Apátlanok) Örkény Theatre, Budapest, January 2016
Judit Ágnes Kiss: Square (Négyszög) POSZT, 2015 (Staged reading)
Florian Zeller: The Father (Apa )Belvárosi Színház, Budapest 2015
Friedrich Schiller: Mary Stuart (Stuart Mária) Örkény Theatre, Budapest 2014
Daniel Danis: Kiwi (Kivi) Budapest Puppet Theatre, 2013
Pierre Notte: Two little Ladies head north (Két néni, ha megindul) Örkény Theatre, Budapest, 2011
Some of my adaptations, translations and rewritings:
Adaptation of Kleist’s Die Marquise von O. and documentary materials on the case of Gisele Pelicot, Franca Viola and Erika Renner, 2025
Adaptation of Gisela Elsner’s Heilig Blut, 2025
Adaptation of Andrea Tompa’s We do not often die, 2025
Adaptation of Michael Ende’s Momo, 2024
Adaptation of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, 2024
Adaptation of Ferenc Molnar’s Liliom, 2023
Translation of Ibsen: Solness,2023
Adaptation of the novel of Magda Szabó: The Door,2020
Árpád Schilling-Ildikó Gáspár: Autonomija, The Youth Theatre, Vilnius, 2018
Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis (an adaptation based upon several short stories of Franz Kafka),2018
Thomas Mann: Joseph and his brothers (József és testvérei) an adaptation of the novel, Örkény Theatre, 2017
Adaptation of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (Örkeny Theater, Budapest, D: Csaba Polgár, 2016
Shakespeare: Hamlet (Baadisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe, D: Csaba Polgár, 2015)
Adaptation of Isvaán Örkény: Family Tot (Örkeny Theatre, D: Pál Mácsai, 2014
Gorky: Kinder der Sonne (Volkstheater, München, D: Csaba Polgár, 2014)
Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (Volkstheater, München, D: Csaba Polgár, 2013)
Heinrich von Kleist: Amphitryon (National Theatre, Budapest, D: Péter Gothár, 2013)
Ibsen: Peer Gynt (Örkény Theatre, D: Tamás Ascher, 2012)
Adaptation of Aki Kaurismaki’s Life of the Boheme, Örkeny Theatre, D: Tamás Ascher, 2010
Korijolánusz (HoppArt, D: Csaba Polgár, 2010)
István Örkény: Cat’s Play (Örkény Theatre, D: Pál Mácsai, 2009)
Nomination and Awards
Best Text Critic’s Award 2025 for We do not often die
2023 Solness has been nominated for four Critic’s Awards:
Best Actor for Solness (Pál Mácsai) - Winner
Best Supporting Actress for Hilde (Mária Szaplonczay) - Winner
Best Performance of the Year
Best Directing
2023 Liliom has been nominated for Best Light Design Latvian Theatre Award
2022, The Door has been nominated for four Critic’s Awards:
Best Actress for Judit Pogány (Emerenc)
Best Costume for Luca Szabados
Best Music for Flora Lili Matisz
Best Emerging Actor for Máté Borsi-Balogh - Winner
2021, The Rhinoceros had won Best Visual Design Latvian Theatre Award
2017, Joseph and his brothers had been nominated for two Awards of the Hungarian Critics' Association:
Best Performance of The Year
Best New Theatre Text (Adaptation)
2014, Mary Stuart had been nominated for four Awards of the Hungarian Critics' Association:
Best Actress for Elisabeth (Anna Szandtner) - Winner
Best Costume – Lili Izsák and Eszter Kálmán - Winner
Best Set-Design
Best Directing
Award of Best Dramaturge for her work in Peer Gynt and Amphitryon at the Meeting of Hungarian Theatres (POSZT) 2013
Nomination for Special Award of the Hungarian Critics' Association for her work as a Dramaturge in the Season 2013
Nomination for Special Award of the Hungarian Critics' Association for her work as a Dramaturge in the productions Cat’s Play and The Life of the Boheme, 2010
Grants:
Guest at the Play Development Workshop of New York Theatre Workshop, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA, 2014
Hospitation in the Deutsches Theater in the production Orestie by Aeschylus, D: Michael Thalheimer, 2006 (Goethe Institut and ITI)
Forum für Junge Bühnenangehörige at the Berliner Theatertreffen 2005 (Goethe Institut)
Teaching and workshops:
Lessons on Contemporary Theatre and Ways of Narration at The Hungarian University for Theatre and Film, 2015, 2017, 2018
Workshop on Shakespeare’s Macbeth at the Lituanian Academy for Theatre, Music and Film, 2019
Workshop on István Örkény’s One minute stories and David Lynch at the Litanian Academy for Theatre, Music and Film, 2020
Workshop on István Örkény’s One minute stories and David Lynch at the Uniarts Theatre Academy, Helsinki, 2020
Workshop on Beginnings and Endings for MA Directing Students Uniarts Stockholm University, 2022