Katalin Trencsényi

Katalin Trencsényi (UK/HU) is a dramaturg, award-winning theatre-maker, researcher and innovator with a penchant for complex, unusual or pioneering projects. Her areas of research are: new dramaturgy, collaborative processes, contemporary theatre, dance and performance. Katalin studied Aesthetics and Literature at the Janus Pannonius University, Pécs (MA), Dramaturgy at the University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE), Budapest (MA), and completed her traineeship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London (2000). She gained her PhD in Philosophy (Aesthetics) at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest (2014). As a London-based independent dramaturg since 2000, Katalin has worked with the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, Deafinitely Theatre, Corali Dance Company, Soho Theatre, and with many independent artists. As a theatre-maker, Katalin has worked and taught internationally lecturing and running workshops on dramaturgy, including New York, US (Segal Theatre, 2017; Gibney Dance/LMDA 2014), Perm, Russia (Diaghilev Festival, 2018), Gent, Belgium (Out of the Toolbox Festival, DANSPUNT, 2018), and Montreal, Canada (Playwrights Workshop Montréal, 2018, 2019, 2021). Katalin is co-founder of the Dramaturgs’ Network (d’n), worked on its various committees in the past two decades, from 2010 to 2012 served as its President, and from 2014-2021 worked on its Board. Currently, she is sitting on the d’n Council. Katalin is the author of Dramaturgy in the Making. A User’s Guide for Theatre Practitioners (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama), editor of Bandoneon: Working with Pina Bausch. (Oberon Books, 2016), co-editor with Bernadette Cochrane of New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014), and a contributor to several other volumes and professional journals. Between 2018 and 2020 Katalin worked as editor of the Dramaturgy section of the global theatre portal, TheTheatreTimes.com. As a visiting lecturer, Katalin has taught at the University of Kent, the Guildford School of Acting (University of Guildford), Kingston University, Falmouth University, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, the Victorian College of the Arts University of Melbourne, and the Yale School of Drama. From 2015 to 2019 she worked as an associate lecturer at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). In 2019 Katalin served as The Drama Creative Fellow at the University of Queensland. She joined Uniarts in 2022 as a lecturer in the Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research international programme.

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