Although her background is Hungarian way back, Marta was born in Austria and lived most of her life in Canada, moving to Budapest three years ago. Most recent Theatre pieces were Miss Lynch in Grease, Mary in The Stain, and the wife in Waking. Film and television include Murdoch Mysteries, Obsession (Lifetime) and Shazam. She’s delighted to be a part of this production!

Rebecka Johnston is a Swedish actress based in Budapest. When she was 16 years old, she discovered classical singing and that would bring her to Budapest to study at the Franz Liszt Music Academy, and would soon also lead to the beginning of her acting career. Rebecka is mainly a screen actor with experience from a range of international television series and films. The Beauty Queen of Leenane will be her introduction to the world of drama on stage.

Martin is a teacher by trade but from listening to his students was convinced back in 2018 to take to the stage. Since then he has been involved in four plays, two as an actor in amateur performances with an amateur acting group, DramaWorks, and two with an independent theatre group, Asterion Project Theatre, the second play of which, Beauty, is still running with prospects of being performed at arts festivals in the spring. He has also done some advertising shoots for online campaigns for start-up companies and has dabbled in film with featured extra roles in a feature film and in an action series. He has even dared to do stand-up but that’s another story.

Balázs Csémy (“Blas”) is a multi-lingual actor, born in the former Czechoslovakia; he resides today in Budapest and Berlin. Balázs/Blas has performed in more than five languages in both Hungarian and several international TV productions. The wide spectrum of his theatrical work spanned from Shakespeare to contemporary musicals and opera. After having finished his second degree at RADA in London, Blas made a seamless transition from stage to the world of television. Balázs will shortly appear in the Hallmark movie: “River Cruise Romance” and the TV-series “Band of Spies”. Currently he appears in the production of Carmina Burana at the Hungarian State Opera and he has just wrapped in the Hungarian movie: “Kegyelem”. Our audience will remember him as Katurian in our last season of The Pillowman.

Robert has worked in the theatre all his life. He was a founder-director of Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre and went from there to Riverside Studios and the Lyric Hammersmith in London. From this point onwards he began to produce theatre commercially and went on to run Theatre Royal, Bath and to programme the Ambassador Group’s eight regional and nine West End theatres. He was the founding producer of the Barbicans BITE Festival and afterwards artistic advisor to Londons Old Vic before becoming Clear Channel European Theatre Director. He has written seven plays as well as having produced, managed, acted in or directed over 300 others. For most of the year he lives quietly on Lake Balaton with his dog, Fanny.