Festival organizers

I was born in Budapest. I graduated in 2012 as an actor. I have been organizing theater and music productions and study trips to the USA on a voluntary basis since 2010. I am the dreamer of the Hungary L!ve Festival and the chairman of the board of the Hungary L!ve Arts Foundation. 

She dedicates her work to support emerging artists in developing their career, finding collaborators, funding, presentation opportunities locally and internationally.  She is working as a freelancer cultural producer, but in an official Partnership with Workshop Foundation since 2023, as they are mutually supporting each other in development, strategy and project implementations. Brigitta is responsible for the international development of the Foundation in collaboration with director Gergely Talló, and works as the project manager of Life Long Burning Creative Europe project from WSF’s side. She is running a management capacity incubation program, called Next Stage, under the umbrella of WSF. The initiative aims to support the artist management work of Brigitta and fellow international producers and provides enhanced capacity for WSF itself.
As an artist manager since 2018, she has worked with individual artists and art collectives, such as Beatrix Simkó (https://simkobeatrix.hu/),  Ladder Art Company (www.ladderartcompany.com) and Imre Vass (https://www.imrevass.com/ ). In 2021 she became a CEC ArtsLink fellow and was hosted by Movement Research (NYC) in 2022 for a 7-week residency. She has been developing and implementing several exchanges between the US and Hungary ever since. She is producer and co-curator of Hungary L!ve Festival, an interdisciplinary festival showcasing Hungarian contemporary artworks and artists in New York. The different activities are linked by her mission is to improve the precarious working conditions of artists and cultural workers in the performing arts field, and initiate mutually beneficial partnerships that can aid more sustainable career paths and strategies.

Lili graduated from the University of Theater and Film Arts Budapest with a BA degree in Art Mediation and Theater Pedagogy, then she graduated with a masters degree in Arts Management from SUNY Buffalo in New York State. She was working as community engagement and social media manager in California and New York. She is a communication and project manager at Workshop Foundation and also actively working as a performer, choreographer and dramaturge in the independent contemporary theater and dance field in Europe. Lili is managing also Next Stage Project’s social media platforms, and helping with other production related tasks too, such as grant writing, production management for Beatrix Simkó and organizing the 3rd Hungary Live Festival in New York.

Emese Mucsi is a Hungarian-born curator and art critic. She has been the curator of the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (www.capacenter.hu) in Budapest since 2018. Emese’s projects bring together artists and photographers with photojournalists, writers, actors, directors, and other thinkers to experiment with new approaches to photography. Her father is a DJ, and Emese “grew up” in disco, so she has a keen sense of how to blend high art with contemporary popular culture. She writes interesting and accessible articles on all kinds of topics, from photography and fashion history to cats. As a curator and author, her goal is infotainment. From March 2014 to January 2018, she was the Editor-in-Chief of Artmagazin Online (artmagazin.hu). Emese is a contributor to the British Journal of Photography, Trigger magazine, Glamour Hungary, and Artmagazin. She founded and started to run the DOXA exhibition space and art educational venue (@doxa_budapest) in 2022, which she has been managing ever since. She is a guest lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (2023–) and the University of Szeged (2024–). She has been appointed as the artistic director of the Hungary L!ve festival in the field of visual arts in 2025.

Eszter Lovrity comes from an arts and design background and works as a project manager in the independent theater scene. She lived and worked in France for four years, which led to her involvement in Ladder Art Company’s participation in the Avignon Off Festival in 2024. At Next Stage Project, she primarily focuses on managing projects for artist Beatrix Simkó and coordinating the 3rd Hungary Live Festival in 2025, while also being involved in other initiatives within Next Stage.

Adam Boncz is an actor who graduated from the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. For over a decade, he performed on prominent New York stages, including La MaMa ETC, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall. In addition to his stage work, he has appeared in numerous international film and television productions, such as Shadow and Bone, Rematch, FBI: International, Infinity Pool, and Lee. He also holds a degree in Arts Management from the State University of New York. www.adamboncz.com
Photo: Alíz Győri

I’m Zsuzsa Oláh presented here in 2 variations. I think I was born to become  an innovation manager. I’m interested in science and art and first of all in human beings. My job enables me to always work with new things and talented people.