Veronika Karsai

Veronika Karsai is a mime artist, director, trainer, drama teacher, and theatre scholar.

Since 1995, she has been working with children, youth, and adult age groups in both non-verbal and spoken prose theatre. For 12 years, she served as a drama and theatre studies teacher at Madách Imre High School, and for 20 years she was the artistic and pedagogical director of the Mimage Pantomime Theatre and Studio.

Over extended periods she has worked as a theatre pedagogue with intellectually disabled youth at Filadelfia House, and as non-verbal acting and movement coach and mime instructor for the Hungarian national figure skating and ice dance teams, the Baross Imre Acrobatforming Vocational and Technical School Performing Arts High School, the University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE), and the Momentán Company.

As performer, director, consultant, or author, she has worked at festivals in Berlin, Vienna, Istanbul, Limassol, Strasbourg, Washington, and Zurich, and in Budapest at Komédium, Centrál, Kolibri, Madách, Merlin, Thália, and Vígszínház. As a theatre historian, she periodically conducts research into the origins and golden age of Hungarian mime art. Alongside theatrical productions, she conducts mime, movement art, and non-verbal acting training for industry professionals, as well as experiential theatre and team-building programmes for children and adult community groups.