Ákos Németh
1964 born in Szekesfehervar. Working as a freelanced playwright he has written 9 plays, some of them published in German, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovakian and English. His plays were put on stage in many Hungarian theatres and universities of drama or adapted for audio-drama or TV-films. The play „Müller’s Dancers“ was his first success staged by Katona Jozsef Theater, Budapest in 1992. The performance was presented in the festival of European Theatre Union. His works were also put on stage in Germany, France, Croatia and GB. The Deutschlandradio in Germany, the Bulgarian and Croatian national radios broadcasted his audio-dramas. The performances were invited to several festivals (a.o. Convention The?atrale Europe?enne, Luxembourg; International Young Playrwights` Festival, Birmingham). His comedy „Car Thieves” was presented in the National Theatre in London in the frame of a rehearsed reading. He has written an one-act play for the Schaubühne in Berlin/Germany which was part of the European production „Orientexpress”. Since 2002 he is the Hungarian curator of the Bienale „New Plays from Europe” in Wiesbaden/ Germany.
