András Visky

Andras Visky was born in 1957 in Targu Mures, Romania. He spent his early childhood
in a Communist gulag, along with his mother and siblings, while his father, a minister in the
Hungarian Reformed Church, was in prison elsewhere.
A political dissident by birth, he headed up the underground university during communism,
and has been his own cause for endless interrogation and imprisonment. Andras has
become an acclaimed writer, poet, and essayist: He is the dramaturg of the State Hungarian
Theatre in Cluj, Romania, and an associate professor in aesthetics at the University of
Babes-Bolyai, also in Cluj. His play, Juliet, has been playing in Budapest since the fall of
2002 at the Thalia Theatre. A Romanian adaptation opened at the Romanian National Theatre
in Cluj last fall. Both the Hungarian and Romanian productions are directed by their countries
most acclaimed directors. One of the radio productions of Juliet won at a festival in
Berlin in 2005.
His play, Disciples, is also currently playing in Cluj at the State Hungarian Theatre. The
English version premiered at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2006.
Two newer plays, The Escape and The Alcoholics, premiered last year in the Romanian
cities of Targu-Mures and Sepsiszent Gyorgy, respectively. His most recent play,
The Unborn, is a stage adaptation of Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Imre Kertesz
(winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2001).