Zoltán Balázs

Cluj, 3rd July 1977.

Education:
1989 - 1991: Children Dance Theatre - Budapest
1991 - 1995: Horváth Mihály Secondary School /drama faculty – Szentes
1995 - 1998: Actor’s Academy – National Theatre
1998 - 2003: University of Theatre and Film Arts – Budapest /MA actor and director

Directions during at the University:
Bertolt Brecht: The Caucaisan Chalk Circle (part)
Sophocles: Antigone
Babits Mihály: The second song (A második ének)
Wooden Animals - a short story based on personal experiences titled

Works of direction:
Fernando Pessoa: The Ancient Anxiety (Merlin Theatre, 1999)
Eugene Ionesco: Jack, or The Submission (Maladype Theatre, 2001)
Michel de Ghelderode: School for Buffons (Maladype Theatre, 2003)
Sándor Weöres: Theomachia (Maladype Theatre - Bárka, 2004)
Jean Genet: The Blacks (Maladype Theatre, 2004)
Maurice Maeterlinck: Pelléas and Mélisande (Maladype Theatre - Bárka, 2004)
Friedrich Hölderlin: Empedocles (Maladype Theatre - Bárka, 2005)
Stanislaw Wyspiański: Acropolis (Maladype Theatre, 2006)
Aleksandr Nicolaevich Ostrovsky: The Storm (Maladype Theatre - Bárka, 2007)
Gilbert-Sullivan: The Mikado - University of Theatre and Film Arts, 2007
The Great March - Co-production with Nitra International Festival, Slovakia, 2007
Georg Büchner: Leonce and Lena - Maladype Theatre, 2008
Heinrich Marschner: The Vampire - Opéra de Rennes, France, 2008
Egg(s)Hell (Maladype Theatre – Thália, 2009
J.W. Goethe: Faust I-II. - Budapest Puppet Theatre, 2009
John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi - National Theatre, 2009
Alfred Jarry: King Ubu - Maladype Theatre, 2009
Homeros-Márai-Monteverdi: Return of Ulysses - Csiky Gergely Theatre, Timisoara, Romania, 2010
A.P. Chekov: Platonov - Maladype Theatre, 2010
Wesker: The Kitchen - Divadlo Andreja Bagara, Nitra, Slovakia, 2011
Dante: Inferno - Trafo House of Contemporary Arts, 2011, Maladype Theatre
P. I.Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake - Budapest Puppet Theatre, 2011
Tristan and Izolde - Mini Teater, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2012
Friedrich Schiller: Don Carlos - Maladype Theatre, 2012

Main roles:
W. Shakespeare: Timon of Athens - Radnóti Miklós Theatre (d: Sándor Zsótér, 2000)
S. Mrożek: The Hunchback – The Hunchback, Ódry Stage (d: Miklós Benedek, 2001)
J.P. Cocteau: Mischievous Kids - Paul, Szigligeti Theatre (d: Tamás Réczei, 2001)
A. Camus: Caligula - Lepidus, Pastel Theatre (d: Mónika Balatoni)
E. Szigligeti: Large Pothole in the Host - Gyuri waiter, Barka Theatre (d: Lászlo Keszég, 2002)
A. Miller: View from the Bridge - Rodolphe, Szigligeti Theatre (d: Géza Tordy, 2002)
W. Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliette - Romeo, Bárka Theatre (d: János Csányi, 2003)
H. Pinter: Moonlight - Fred, Barka Theatre (d: Laszlo Bérczes, 2003)
A.P. Chekov: Three Sisters - Tuzenbach, Bárka Theatre (d: Catalina Buzoianu, 2003)
F. Schiller: Mary Stuart - Robert Dudley, Bárka Theatre (d: Sándor Zsótér, 2004)
W. Shakespeare: Hamlet - Hamlet, Bárka Theatre (d: Tim Carroll, 2005)
K.Weil-B.Brecht The Treepenny Opera - Mack the Knife, Bárka Theatre (d: Róbert Alföldi, 2006)
A.P. Chekov: The Seagull – Treplyov, Bárka Theatre (d: János Szász, 2008)

Movie roles:
Report (d: Dénes Nagy, 2009)
1 (d.: Pater Sparrow, 2009)
Who broke this kid (d: Róbert Alföldi, 2007)

Workshops:
Joseph Nadj workshop in Avignon - 1996
Anatoly Vasiliev workshop in Avignon - 1997
Robert Wilson`s course in Paris - 1999
UTE stage directing course Stuttgart - 2002

Awards:
2009 – Kálmán Nádasdy Award
2008 – Mari Jászai Award
2008 – Őze Lajos Award (best performance for Hamlet and Mack the Knife)
2006 – Gábor Miklós Award (for Hamlet)
2005 – Súgó Csiga Award (for Hamlet);
2005 - ARARAT Award (for Hamlet);
2005 - Knight`s Cross of the Hungarian State
2002 – Üstökös (Comet) Award
2001 – Best Actor- Paris (Baudelaire: The Flowers of Evil)


Actor and director, was born in 1977 in Kolozsvár (Cluj Napoca, Romania). He graduated as an actor and director from the University of Drama, Film and Television Arts. He participated in several foreign workshops such as in Vasilyev and Jozsef Nagy’s workshop in Avignon. He studied from Robert Wilson in Paris and he also graduated from the European Theatre Union’s directorial course in Stuttgart. Rhythm and musicality have had a huge impact on his work (e.g. Theomachia by Sándor Weöres, The Blacks by Genet, Mikado by Gilbert Sullivan, The Big March – based on Ravel’s Bolero, Divadelna Nitra International Theatre Festival 2007). Through his performances he aims to ”give the audience a theatrical experience which is complex, appeals to emotions and senses and raises the scenery, motion and music to the same level as the lyrics”. His latest premiere was The Vampire by Marschner, in Opera de Rennes, France. Since 2002 he has been the artistic director of Maladype Theatre.