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Esztella Levko

programme organizer

Esztella Levko is a professionally trained actress. She received a BA degree in European Theater Arts from Rose Bruford College, London and she studied in Moscow at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (ВГИК). After completing her studies, she worked with several major European theater companies. She is the founder and board member of the Hungary L!ve Art Foundation, founded in 2019. The biggest project of the foundation is the Hungary L!ve Festival NYC, which is a theater festival that showcases critically acclaimed works of Hungarian theater in New York. Esztella has been leading physical theatre trainings for over 10 years in Hungary and abroad. In recent years she has held trainings in Slovakia, Poland, Japan, Italy, and in the United States.Along with her acting and teaching career, she completed a master's degree in cultural anthropology at Eötvös Loránd University. Her dissertation studies on the Iranain underground theater and dance scene.