SEGAL TALKS Andrea Tompa and Anna Lengyel (Hungary)

Published on Monday 4 April 2020

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Andrea Tompa is a Hungarian writer, theatre critic and academic. Her main field of interest is contemporary Hungarian and East European theater and drama. She is the editor-in-chief of the theater magazine SZINHAZ (Theater). She is an academic at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania. She is the author of four novels.

Anna Lengyel is a dramaturg, translator, theatre director and producer. She runs the only documentary theatre in Hungary called PanoDrama, where she produces and directs mostly verbatim shows about sensitive social issues like the racist murders of the Roma in 2008-2009, public education, the Shoah, pedophilia, hate crimes or cancer for instance, an illness she’s now had for over three years. She regularly works on three continents, with Árpád Schilling, Tamás​ Ascher and Robert Wilson among others. She is a Fulbright alumna.