Zalán Zakariás

Zalán Zakariás was born in 1982, in Barót, Romania. His theatre-based studies started out at the Shakespeare Performing Arts Academy, Budapest, in 2001, which he ceased attending in favour of following auteurial studies in Bucharest at the I. L. Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography. In 2004 he set off his career by directing M. Gorky’s Children of the Sun for the students of Babeș-Bolyai University, Theatre Studies Faculty, Kolozsvár, as their final exam performance. These were followed by works such as Ödön von Horváth: Tales from the Vienna Woods, P. Beaumarchais: The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro!!! - 2008/2009, Borgesson - Adam Long - Daniel Singer - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) performance - 2014/2015, which is still running, or Verdi’s Giovanna d`Arco opera, directed in 2013 at the Hungarian State Opera House and the Hungarian Opera, Kolozsvár. Between 2009-2017, he undertook artistic directorial duties at the Tamási Áron Theatre, Sepsiszentgyörgy, later director, while working with several companies and theatres from Bucharest to Budapest, both in Hungarian and Romanian speaking regions. Currently he is working as the artistic director of the Tomcsa Sándor Theatre, Székelyudvarhely.