Orsolya Fodor (1994) is a theatre-maker currently living in Budapest. After her studies in puppetry at the University of Theatre and Film Arts and her studies in Poland with the help of the Emergency Exit programme of the Freeszfe Association, she turned to performance art. Alongside her freelance work as a puppetry director, dramaturg, and teacher, she creates in various non-hierarchical collaborations. She is interested in collective forms of authorship and creation, and the ways these influence one another. In her work, she places great emphasis on mutual learning and the continuous transformation of artistic identity. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at the University of Fine Arts, researching how performative interventions affect the sacred language of space. Beyond the possibilities of found spaces, she is drawn to autofictional formats as well as puppet and figure theatre as a philosophical language. Her most personal work, Johanna, takes place in an empty swimming pool, where she examines the identity-shaping power of vulnerability through her own religious past in the form of a vision–lecture performance.

STUDIES
2024- Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Doktoral Studies, Budapest
2022-2024 Performance Studies, Freeszfe Society, Budapest
2021-2022 Puppet director MA, Akademia Teatralna im. Alexandra Zelwerowicza w Warszawie, Białystok
2017-2021 Theater and Puppet director, University of Theater and Film Arts, Budapest

MEMBERSHIP
2021 Freeszfe Society
2019 AEFA Assosiation

TEACHING
2024 Freeszfe Society, Youth program
2024 KIMI OKJ Acting Studies - puppet teacher, Budapest
2022-2023 TIM Stúdió - teacher, director (Bluebirds), Budapest