Zoltán Balázs

Zoltán Balázs
Born (1977-07-03) 3 July 1977 (age 47)
Cluj, Romania
NationalityHungarian
Education
Occupations
  • Actor
  • Theatre director
  • Scenographer
Known forFounding Maladype Theater
Awards
  • 2022 – Honthy Hanna Award
  • 2018 – Hevesi Sándor Award
  • 2005 – ARARAT Award
  • 2005 – Knight's Cross of the Hungarian State

Zoltán Balázs (born 3 July 1977) is a Hungarian actor, theater director, and scenographer. He won the Jászai Mari Award among many other prizes for his role as an actor, director, and theatrical innovator.[1][2][3]

Zoltán Balázs is the founder and artistic director of Maladype Theatre, a Hungarian theater company that has been in operation since its establishment in 2001. He has been honored with the Hevesi Award by the Hungarian Theatre Institute for his contributions in presenting Hungarian theater on the international stage.[4][5]

Early life and education

Zoltán Balazs was born in 1977 in Cluj, Romania. In 1989 he moved to Hungary. Between 1989 and 1991 he was a member of the Budapest Children Dance Theatre. He attended Horváth Mihály High School's drama class of 1991–1995 in Szentes. From 1995 to 1998 Balázs was a student of the National Academy of Theater. He studied acting (1998–2002) and directing (2000–2003) in Budapest at the University of Theatre and Film Arts. Meanwhile, he participated in several masterclasses with well-known directors and choreographers, like Anatoli Vasiliev, Josef Nadj and Min Tanaka in Avignon, and studied from Robert Wilson in Paris. Then he completed the directing course of The Union of European Theatres in Stuttgart.[6]

Career

In 2001 he founded the avant-garde Maladype Theatre in Budapest, which became internationally known. As a director, Balázs had been a frequent guest of various festivals and theaters around the world. He directed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Germany, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and the United States of America. Between 2003 and 2008 he was a defining actor and director of the company of Bárka Theatre, Hungary. Zoltán Balázs directed classical and contemporary works, adapted novels and epics, dramas, comedies, operas, operettas, musicals, dance plays, puppet shows, performances, non-verbal and physical theater, as well as rock concerts. He taught acting at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, and the University of Arts Târgu Mures. He regularly holds master classes and workshops based on his theater methodical concept entitled Gold-Bug- and FIVE GATES Method for students of Hungarian and foreign art universities and theater communities.[7][8]

Awards

  • 2003 – Critics Award: Best Alternative Performance (School for Fools)[9]
  • 2005 – ARARAT Award (for the role of Hamlet) [10]
  • 2005 – Knight's Cross of the Hungarian State [3]
  • 2014 – Best Performance (King Ubu) – FIAT International Theatre Festival, Podgorica, Montenegro [11]
  • 2018 – Hevesi Sándor Award [2]
  • 2020 – Grand Prize (Yvonne) – XIV. International Gombrowicz Festival, Radom, Poland [12]
  • 2022 – Honthy Hanna Award: Artist of the season (Nine) [13]
  • 2023 – Golden Mask Award (Alice in bed) – 63rd MESS International Theatre Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina [14]

Bibliography

Works of Direction [15]
  • 2023 – Susan Sontag: Alice in Bed – Maladype Theatre – 63rd MESS International Theatre Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina [16]
  • 2023 – Nick Dear: Frankenstein – Móricz Zsigmond Theatre, Nyíregyháza * 2022 – Jean de La Fontaine: Fables (Pandorium) – Odeon Theatre, Bucharest, Romania [7]
  • 2022 – Adam Mickiewicz: Forefathers’ Eve II. – Stefan Jaracz Theatre, Olsztyn, Poland
  • 2022 – Roy Chen: Someone Like me – Maladype Theatre
  • 2021 – Brothers Grimm: Fearseekers – University of Arts, Târgu-Mures, Romania
  • 2021 – Arthur Kopit – Maury Yeston: Nine – Budapest Operetta and Musical Theatre [17]
  • 2021 – Tankred Dorst: Merlin – Maladype Theatre – Castle Theatre, Kisvárda [18]
  • 2020 – Susan Sontag: Alice in bed – University of Arts, Târgu-Mures, Romania
  • 2020 – Witold Gombrowicz: Yvonne – Maladype Theatre [19]
  • 2019 – Pier Lorenzo Pisano: For your own good – Odeon Theatre, Bucharest, Romania [20]
  • 2018 – Elzbieta Chowaniec: Gardenia – Odeon Theatre, Bucharest, Romania
  • 2018 – Bruno Schulz: August – University of Arts, Târgu-Mures, Romania
  • 2017 – Mihály Vörösmarty: Csongor and Tünde – Maladype Theatre – Castle Theatre, Gyula [21]
  • 2017 – Eugene Ionesco: The Lesson – University of Theatre and Film Arts
  • 2017 – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: Three Sisters – Maladype Theatre [22]
  • 2016 – Matei Visniec: Dada Cabaret – Maladype Theatre – Átrium Film-Theatre [23]
  • 2016 – Matei Visniec: How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients – Trap Door Theatre, Chicago, USA [24]
  • 2015 – Sándor Weöres – László Sáry: Great Sound in the Rush – Maladype Theatre – Qaartsiluni Ensemble – International Bartók Festival and Seminar, Szombathely
  • 2014 – Raymond Queneau: Exercises in Style – Maladype Theatre [25]
  • 2014 – Anna and the Barbies – 10th Anniversary Concert – SYMA
  • 2013 – William Shakespeare: Macbeth/Anatomy – Maladype Theatre, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts [26]
  • 2013 – Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov: Master and Margarita – Maladype Theatre – Radu Stanca National Theatre, Sibiu, Romania [27]
  • 2013 – Matei Visniec: The Story of The Panda Bears... – Maladype Theatre [28]
  • 2012 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Egmont – Maladype Theatre
  • 2012 – Friedrich Schiller: Don Carlos – Maladype Theatre
  • 2012 – Jean Cocteau: Tristan and Isolde – Mini Theatre, Ljubljana, Slovenia [29]
  • 2011 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake – Budapest Puppet Theatre
  • 2011 – Alighieri Dante: Inferno – Maladype Theatre – Trafo House of Contemporary Arts [30]
  • 2011 – Arnold Wesker: The Kitchen – Andrej Bagar Theatre, Nitra, Slovakia
  • 2010 – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: Platonov – Maladype Theatre [31]
  • 2010 – Homer – Sándor Márai – Claudio Monteverdi: Return of Ulysses – Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre, Timisoara, Romania [32]
  • 2009 – Alfred Jarry: King Ubu – Maladype Theatre
  • 2009 – John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi – National Theatre [33]
  • 2009 – Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Faust I-II. – Budapest Puppet Theatre [34]
  • 2009 – Sándor Weöres: Egg(s)Hell – Maladype Theatre – Thália Theatre
  • 2008 – Heinrich Marschner: The Vampire – Rennes Opera House, France [35]
  • 2008 – Georg Büchner: Leonce and Lena – Maladype Theatre
  • 2007 – The Big March (based on Ravel's Bolero) – 15th International Theatre Festival Divadelná Nitra, Slovakia
  • 2007 – Gilbert – Sullivan: The Mikado – University of Theatre and Film Arts
  • 2007 – Aleksandr Nicolaevich Ostrovsky: The Tempest – Maladype Theatre – Bárka Theatre
  • 2006 – Stanislaw Wyspianski: Acropolis – Maladype Theatre
  • 2006 – Mihály Babits: The second song – Krétakör Theatre
  • 2005 – Friedrich Hölderlin: Empedocles – Maladype Theatre – Bárka Theatre [36]
  • 2004 – Sándor Weöres: Theomachia, Maladype Theatre – Bárka Theatre
  • 2004 – Maurice Maeterlinck: Pelléas and Mélisande – Bárka Theatre – Maladype Theatre
  • 2004 – Jean Genet: The Blacks – Maladype Theatre – Bárka Theatre
  • 2003 – Michel de Ghelderode: School for Fools – Maladype Theatre
  • 2001 – Eugene Ionesco: Jack, or The Submission – Maladype Theatre
  • 1999 – Fernando Pessoa: The Ancient Anxiety – Merlin Theatre [37]
Main Role theater Plays
  • 2016 – William Shakespeare: Richard III – Richard III, Maladype Theatre (d: Sándor Zsótér)
  • 2017 – Jean Genet: The Balcony – Chief of Police/Roger, Maladype Theatre (d: Sándor Zsótér)
  • 2015 – Victor Kravchenko: I Chose Freedom – Victor Kravchenko, Maladype Theatre (d: Zoltán Balázs)
  • 2008 – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: The Seagull – Trepljev, Bárka Theatre (d: János Szász)
  • 2006 – Kurt Weil – Bertolt Brecht: The Threepenny Opera – Mack the Knife, Bárka Theatre (d: Róbert Alföldi)
  • 2005 – William Shakespeare: Hamlet – Hamlet, Bárka Theatre (d: Tim Carroll)
  • 2004 – Friedrich Schiller: Mary Stuart – Robert Dudley, Bárka Theatre (d: Sándor Zsótér)
  • 2003 – Harold Pinter: The Homecoming – Joey, Bárka Theatre (d: László Bérczes)
  • 2003 – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: Three Sisters – Tuzenbach, Bárka Theatre (d: Catalina Buzoianu)
  • 2003 – Harold Pinter: Moonlight – Fred, Barka Theatre (d: László Bérczes)
  • 2003 – Luigi Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author – Stage whisper, Bárka Theatre (d: Catalina Buzoianu)
  • 2003 – William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliette – Romeo, Bárka Theatre (d: János Csányi)
  • 2002 – Arthur Miller: View from the Bridge – Rodolphe, Szigligeti Theatre (d: Géza Tordy)
  • 2002 – Ede Szigligeti: Large Pothole in the Host – Gyuri waiter, Bárka Theatre (d: László Keszég)
  • 2002 – Albert Camus: Caligula – Lepidus, Pastel Theatre (d: Mónika Balatoni)
  • 2001 – Jean Cocteau: Mischievous Kids – Paul, Szigligeti Theatre (d: Tamás Réczei)
  • 2001 – Slawomir Mrozek: The Hunchback – The Hunchback, Ódry Stage (d: Miklós Benedek)
  • 2000 – William Shakespeare: Timon of Athens – Servilius, Radnóti Miklós Theatre (d: Sándor Zsótér)
Movie Roles
  • 2018 – I Chose Freedom Tour (documentary – biography movie)
  • 2009 – Report (d: Dénes Nagy)
  • 2009 – 1 (d: Pater Sparrow)
  • 2007 – Who broke this kid (d: Róbert Alföldi)

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