Description: Edit Kaldor makes theatre pieces often integrating the use of documentary elements and various digital media
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Edit Kaldor is recognized internationally as a unique voice in the contemporary theatre landscape. She works mostly with nonprofessional performers over extended periods of time and across various projects, merging documentary and fictional materials, and often addressing seemingly unspeakable experiences, such as statelessness, abuse, or the dying process. Her performances, which stretch considerably the boundaries of theatrical conventions, have been presented in over 30 countries in Europe, the Americas,
Born in Budapest, Edit Kaldor immigrated as a child to the United States, where she lived for ten years before moving back to Europe. She studied English Literature and Theatre at Columbia University in New York and at DasArts in Amsterdam. She had worked for years as dramaturge and video-maker with Peter Halasz (Squat theater/Love theater, New York), collaborating on numerous theatre performances and film scripts, before starting to write and direct her own pieces.
Kaldor has taught and lectured at (performing) art academies and universities across Europe, and has led numerous workshops at theatres and festival, among them at the International Forum at the Berliner Festspiele and the Shanghai Biennale. She is currently a doctoral fellow at the Norwegian Theatre Academy, developing the artistic research project The Many and the Form on new aesthetic and social practices for contemporary performance. She is co-editor (together with Joe Kelleher) of the book Theatres of