Theatre as human encounter
Being present in the moment, not afraid of the future or consumed by the past, but simply here, now. To inhabit the moment in its infinite complexity, and to allow different states of mind and worlds to become permeable to one another. For me, that is theatre. It is the most essential practice and path I know for understanding existence.
Anna Sovák
"I do it because I cannot do otherwise. This is what I am: everything that is needed to make theatre—architect, psychologist, writer, mother, friend, enemy, time traveler. Everything I ever wanted to be, everything I had some talent for, finds its place here. In directing, I make space for it all. I’ve tried most of these things separately, but over time, each of them felt too small. Too narrow.
I love animals, nature, the world, the new and the old, the search for balance—but what I’m really in love with is the human being. That is what moves me: understanding, encounter. Even when I can’t stand it, even when I hate it at times, I still love it. This is what drives me: people and their stories.
Presence is what I believe we most need to practice in this world—at least I certainly do. Not staying in the past, not fearing or hoping for the future, but being here, now. And still, making states of consciousness and worlds permeable.
For me, this is theatre: the most fascinating, effective, and revealing way of engaging with existence. And I admit it: I am a deeply disorganized person, and theatre is the place where I bring order to the chaos of life."
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Anna Sovák is a theatre maker, director, dramaturg, performer, and teaching artist whose work bridges theatre, music, movement, and participatory performance.
Raised on a remote farm in the Hungarian countryside, surrounded by animals and nature, she developed from an early age a profound connection to storytelling, imagination, and the rhythms of the natural world. Her artistic journey began with Hungarian folk music and dance, which she studied from the age of six and which continue to inform the musicality and physicality of her work today.
At fourteen, she entered the world of theatre through youth performance programmes at the Mezei Mária School of Arts, where she trained in acting, movement, dance, music, physical theatre, theatre history, and dramatic theory. By the age of seventeen, she was already working professionally as an actor.
Her early career was strongly shaped by Theatre in Education. After completing specialised training in drama pedagogy and participatory theatre practices, she joined the acclaimed Kerekasztal Theatre in Education Company, where she worked for seven years as an actor-facilitator and teaching artist. During this period, she participated in more than 250 Theatre in Education programmes, developing extensive experience in interactive performance, facilitation, and socially engaged theatre.
She later collaborated with the Hungarian Drama in Education Association and the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior on a multi-year crime prevention initiative, working as an actor-drama practitioner within educational and community-based programmes. She also taught acting at Hunyadi Secondary School in Jászberény.
Alongside her theatre practice, she pursued studies in jazz singing at the Etűd Music School and completed advanced professional actor training. For several years she focused on creating and performing original musical projects, sustaining a career as an independent artist and performer.
Driven by a lifelong fascination with Flamenco, she relocated to Spain. Her artistic path has also taken her through various cultural contexts across Europe, including extended periods in London, Rome, and Transylvania, where she encountered a wide range of theatrical methodologies, artistic collaborations, and master practitioners.
Since settling permanently in Spain in 2017, she has completed further professional studies in directing and dramaturgy and founded her own theatre company.
As a director and creator, Anna is known for a distinctive theatrical language that combines emotional depth, visual imagination, physical storytelling, music, and strong dramaturgical structure.
Her productions for children are celebrated for their sense of wonder, playfulness, movement, and poetic imagery, while her work for adult audiences explores complex social and human questions with honesty, artistic rigor, humour, and emotional impact.
Alongside her creative practice, she continues to work as a trainer and educator, drawing on more than three decades of experience in performance, and two in facilitation, and artistic pedagogy.
Selected Teachers and Artistic Influences
Péter Uray — director, choreographer, movement director and orchestral conductor
László Kaposi — director, playwright, drama educator and pioneer of Theatre in Education
Paolo Antonio Simioni — actor, director and acting teacher
Elza Valle — Latin jazz vocalist
Gábor Vinand — jazz vocalist, composer and musician
Violeta Ruiz — Flamenco dancer and choreographer
Noelia Rosa — actor, director, dramaturg and mentor in directing practice
José Carrión — lighting designer and theatre technician, artist
A unified somatic practice
Stage direction
Dramaturgical research
Somatic coaching
Rigorous European staging that prioritizes bodily tension over decorative blocking, creating intense, visceral encounters that demand absolute presence from both actor and audience.
Deep textual analysis combined with somatic exploration, bridging classical foundations and contemporary physical theatre to reveal the unvarnished human truth beneath the script.
Empathetic, ego-free guidance for actors and writers, establishing psychological safety to access genuine emotional depth and awaken raw creative impulses without clinical constraint.
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