Northern Theatre Harag György Company

Anna Veress trained as an architect and initially worked as a city planner and as a translator and editor. In 1980 she assisted the director Tamás Ascher at the National Theatre, Budapest. She edited a literary magazine (1978–82) before becoming Dramaturg at the Katona József Theatre (1992–2000), working with Ascher, Péter Halász and Gábor Zsámbéki, among others. She organized the 1993 Festival of the Union of European Theatres and worked with Ascher on Gombrowicz’s Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy, Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano/ The Lesson and Ostrovsky’s The Forest at the Burgtheater, Vienna and Tartuffe at the Berliner Ensemble. She joined Krétakör Színház during the 2000/01 Season and has been the production dramaturg on most of its subsequent productions, including W – Workers’ Circus, Leonce and Lena, Fatherland, my all . . ., Marius Mayenburg’s The Cold Child and The Seagull, in which – in an empty space with
the actors and the text as the only tools — her role was crucial. She also translates plays, including The Cold Child and Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Before – After, a Krétakör – Katona co-production directed by Árpád Schilling.