István Tasnádi
Born in 1970, he started as a poet in 1992, his first published work was a book of poems. He doesn’t write poems anymore, but his plays mostly are written in verse. In the last 15 years he has written approximately 25-30 plays, adap- tations and several film scripts. He was a foundation member of the Arc Theatre in 1996, and worked there for 5 years as a dramaturge. Then he joined Kretakor (Chalkcircle) Theatre. The theatre created a lot of performances with the method of work-in-progress, which means he used actors improvisations when writing the text. With these performances the theatre toured all over Europe. During the last few years he won some literary awards in Hungary, twice the Critics Award for the best new Hungarian play. Three of his plays (Public Enemy; Phaidra fitness; Finito) were translated into English, German, Italian and France. His first volume of poems was published in 1993 (Walter Egon farewell letters, Orpheus Publisher), his first volume of dramas in 2000 (Cocain courier, Osiris Publisher) and the Taigetos nursery (Jelenkor Publisher) came out in 2004, it contains different drama scripts co-operated with Arpad Schilling, who is the artistic director at the Kretakor Theatre.
