Anna Kiraly

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A multi-disciplinary artist from Hungary residing in New York, Anna Kiraly’s visual designs have been seen throughout Eastern Europe and for the past decade in New York. Anna graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. She often creates set, costume and video designs for the same production. Recent and past theater projects include production design and video for FLIP SIDE (an innovative collaboration with the Talking Band where the play was created around her visual world), THE SEPARATION at the Walker Art Center with Bobby Previte, costumes for THIS IS THE RILL SPEAKING and DARKLING (American Opera Projects), KAFKA FRAGMENTS with Peter Sellars at Zankel Hall, production design for ISABELLA, CHEKHOV LIZARDBRAIN and PAY UP with the Pig Iron Company and CUT TO THE CHASE with Parallel Exit at 59 E 59 Theaters. In Europe she collaborated with the Russian director Anatoly Vassiliev. She received the Arts Link Grant (SOROS Foundation), the NEA/TCG Program for Designers (2003-2005) and the TCG New Generations program with the Talking Band. Her theater design work was included in the 2007 Prague Quadrennial Exhibit. Her installation work has been featured among other venues by Lower Manhattan Cultural Center and The Drawing Center. She created her own visual puppet piece SLOW ASCENT and UFO IN K at St. Ann’s Warehouse (under Dan Hurlin’s guidance) both of which won the Jim Henson Foundation’s support.

UPCOMING PROJECTS - Crawl, Fade to White (by S.Callaghan)

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Work with director P.Willis, a production of 13p, opens October 2008, NYC

Checkhov Lizardbrain

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Work with Pig Iron Company, scenic design, opens October 2008, OHIO Theater, NYC

Flip Side (by E.Maddow)

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Work with director P.Zimet, set and video design, opens September 2008, Connelly Theater, NYC

LATEST WORKS - Isabella

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Journey to the End of the Night - G.Frankel Theatre directed by Josh Carlebach

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journey to the end of the night

JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT is the story of a persecuted man…of a Nazi conspirator… of a victim of his times…of an opportunist… It is the story of two men. It is the story of three men. It is the story of one man. Nothing is that simple.

Cut to The Chase - 59 East 59 Theatre with Parallel Exit

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From the press: “This is an appropriate title for a show in which no words are wasted: Parallel Exit, a vaudevillian company, creates theater inspired by the silent films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. But while there’s no dialogue, there are plenty of sound effects. If this backstage farce is anything like the troupe’s 2005 ‘This Way That Way,’ it should be hilarious.” - The New York Times

“Theater troupe Parallel Exit returns to the city this week with its latest show, Cut to the Chase. Bring your tot to see the hilarious antics, physical comedy, and general chaos that goes on behind the curtain during a vaudeville performance.” - Time Out New York

Pay Up - in Montclair, with the Pig Iron Theater Company

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PAY UP, A SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION, ABOUT BUYING AND SELLING "The OBIE Award-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company (“One of the few groups successfully taking theatre in new directions” – NYT) brings you a real-world lesson about money, monkeys, and the paradox of choice in a consumerist society. Part circus, part shopping experience, and part sociology experiment, this site-specific interactive performance installation takes its audience on a choose-your-own-adventure tour of the human psyche’s experience of regret, confusion, and playfulness in matters of economic choice. Unsettling equations arise as real money changes hands among friends, siblings, lovers and strangers. Based on the experiments of Yale economist Keith Chen, PAY UP gives you your money’s worth in a fascinating and provocative romp through a wholly-enveloping world ruled by the almighty dollar."

Flip Side - set and video design - with Talking Band in Hungary

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PQ 2007 - Prague Quadrennial

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Anna's set design for Imaginary Invalid & Pay Up will be on view as part of the US design Team.

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Le Pigblog : "A Triple Capuccino Effect": An Interview with Anna Kiraly. go & see.