András Visky (born April 13, 1957) is a Hungarian-Romanian poet,
playwright and essayist and the resident dramaturg at Cluj-Napoca
Hungarian Theatre, Romania, where he also holds the position of
associate artistic director. His plays have been staged in several
countries including Romania, Hungary, France, Italy, Poland, Slovenia,
England, Scotland and the United States. He has a DLA (Doctor of
Liberal Arts) from the University of Theatre and Film, Budapest and
since 1994 he has lectured at the BabeÅŸ-Bolyai University in the
Department of Theatre and Television. He is one of the co-founders and
the former executive director of Koinónia Publishing.[1]Visky's
father, Ferenc Visky, was a minister of the Hungarian Reformed Church
who in 1958 was sentenced to 22 years in prison and forced labor by
the Romanian Communist authorities for "the crime of organization
against socialist public order."[2] Shortly after, his wife and their
seven children were deported[3] to the Bărăgan (see Bărăgan
deportations); Visky was only two years old at the time. In 1964, his
father and other political prisoners were released during a
short-lived period of relative thaw in which the regime relaxed its
repressive policies. Visky himself was released the same year along
with his mother and siblings.Visky joined the Hungarian Theatre of
Cluj as dramaturg in 1990. This was also the beginning of his long
professional collaboration with Gábor Tompa, the artistic director of
the theatre. The pair have worked together on innumerable
performances, including plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ionesco,
Caragiale, Gombrowicz and Beckett, and Tompa has directed Visky's
Júlia, TanÃtványok, Hosszú péntek, Visszaszületés and
Alkoholisták. Visky has also worked with directors Dragoş Galgoţiu,
Mihai Măniuţiu, Robert Raponja, David Zinder, Robert Woodruff and
Karin Coonrod.For the 2009â€"2010 academic year, Visky was the
Spoelhof Chair at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he
taught courses in playwriting and Hungarian and Romanian theatre.[4]
He has also led workshops or taught as a guest lecturer at the
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Budapest), Northern Illinois
University (DeKalb IL), the University of Michigan (Kalamazoo MI), the
University of California, San Diego (CA), Yale School of Drama (New
Haven CT), Károli Gáspár University (Budapest), Josai International
University (Tokyo, Japan), and Osaka University (Osaka, Japan). In
2017 he spoke at the European Division of the Library of Congress.[5]
playwright and essayist and the resident dramaturg at Cluj-Napoca
Hungarian Theatre, Romania, where he also holds the position of
associate artistic director. His plays have been staged in several
countries including Romania, Hungary, France, Italy, Poland, Slovenia,
England, Scotland and the United States. He has a DLA (Doctor of
Liberal Arts) from the University of Theatre and Film, Budapest and
since 1994 he has lectured at the BabeÅŸ-Bolyai University in the
Department of Theatre and Television. He is one of the co-founders and
the former executive director of Koinónia Publishing.[1]Visky's
father, Ferenc Visky, was a minister of the Hungarian Reformed Church
who in 1958 was sentenced to 22 years in prison and forced labor by
the Romanian Communist authorities for "the crime of organization
against socialist public order."[2] Shortly after, his wife and their
seven children were deported[3] to the Bărăgan (see Bărăgan
deportations); Visky was only two years old at the time. In 1964, his
father and other political prisoners were released during a
short-lived period of relative thaw in which the regime relaxed its
repressive policies. Visky himself was released the same year along
with his mother and siblings.Visky joined the Hungarian Theatre of
Cluj as dramaturg in 1990. This was also the beginning of his long
professional collaboration with Gábor Tompa, the artistic director of
the theatre. The pair have worked together on innumerable
performances, including plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ionesco,
Caragiale, Gombrowicz and Beckett, and Tompa has directed Visky's
Júlia, TanÃtványok, Hosszú péntek, Visszaszületés and
Alkoholisták. Visky has also worked with directors Dragoş Galgoţiu,
Mihai Măniuţiu, Robert Raponja, David Zinder, Robert Woodruff and
Karin Coonrod.For the 2009â€"2010 academic year, Visky was the
Spoelhof Chair at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he
taught courses in playwriting and Hungarian and Romanian theatre.[4]
He has also led workshops or taught as a guest lecturer at the
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Budapest), Northern Illinois
University (DeKalb IL), the University of Michigan (Kalamazoo MI), the
University of California, San Diego (CA), Yale School of Drama (New
Haven CT), Károli Gáspár University (Budapest), Josai International
University (Tokyo, Japan), and Osaka University (Osaka, Japan). In
2017 he spoke at the European Division of the Library of Congress.[5]
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