Bodò Viktor

4 July 1978, Budapest

1997:          starts majoring in Acting at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest

2000:          starts majoring in Directing at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest

2003:          earns an MA in Directing at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest

founds the Magma Event Organiser and Production Agency

2008:          founds the Sputnik Shipping Company Modern Theatre and Behaviour Research Institute Laboratory

 

 

Theatre roles played 

  • Baal in Bertold Brecht’s Baal, dir. Árpád Schilling (Krétakör Theatre)
  • Octavio ( Malvolio) in William Shakespeare-Attila Lőrinczy’s Love, or What You Will, dir. Árpád Schilling (Krétakör Theatre)
  • Rex Madison in István Tasnádi’s Nexxt, dir. Árpád Schilling (Krétakör Theatre)

 

Film roles played

  • Kalózok (You or Me), dir. Tamás Sas, 1999 – Max
  • Jadviga párnája (Jadviga’s Pillow),  dir. Krisztina Deák, 2000 – Ondris
  • Rosszfiúk , dir. Tamás Sas, 2001 – Kecső
  • Nexxt, dir. Árpád Schilling, 2002 Rex Madison
  • Overnight, dir. Ferenc Török, 2007 Vas Péter

 

Film directions

  • Citromfej, screenplay and director, 2001
  • Jött egy busz (A Bus Came…), director of the segment Negyedóra (A Quarter of an Hour), 2003

 

Directions between 1994-1999 ( AD HOC Group)

  • William Shakespeare: Richard III.
  • F. M. Dostoevskiy: Crime and Punishment
  • GalambosBodó: Elizabeththefirst  – based on Paul Foster’s Elizabeth I
  • Bodó Viktor: Attack (University of Theatre and Film Arts- Katona József Theatre KAMRA)
  • Cross Currents a performance based on contemporary British poetry (Magma Company Trafó, Budapest)
  • ART FABRIK, színházi akció (Magma Company – Katona József Theatre)

 

Theatre directions

  • VinnaiBodó: Motel (Katona József Theatre, 2003 diploma direction)
  • Milán Füst: The Unhappy Ones  (Tirgu-Mures National Theatre Miklós Tompa Company, Romania, 2003)
  • M, or Maybe Not (Móricz Zsigmond Theatre, Nyíregyháza, 2004)
  • VinnaiBodó: Rattledanddisappeared  – for The Trial by Franz Kafka (Katona József Theatre, 2005)
  • Shock Revue (Móricz Zsigmond Theatre, Nyíregyháza, 2005)
  • Strike of the Mongooses based on the play Fllo Covering by the Presnakov Brothers (exam performance for the University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest, 2005)
  • Tomik based on Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (Friends of the Theatre Association, Szombathely, 2005)
  • The Great Sganarelle and Co. (Katona József Theatre, Budapest, 2005)
  • Vinnai-Bodó: Pizzicato (Deutsches Theater Berlin, 2006)
  • Franz Kafka: The Castle  (Schauspielhaus Graz, 2006)
  • Ministry of Experience  (Hebbel-am-Ufer Theater, Berlin, 2007)
  • Vinnai – Bodó: Fauteuil (Móricz Zsigmond Theatre, Nyíregyháza, 2007)
  • Roland Schimmelpfennig: Alice (Schauspielhaus Graz, 2007)
  • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: Dead Souls (Sputnik Shipping Company, 2008)
  • W. Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream  (Sputnik Shipping Company, 2008)
  • Viktor Bodó: Apartment Block Stories  (Sputnik Shipping Company, 2008)
  • Peter Handke: The Hour When We Knew Nothing of Each Other (joint production of Schauspielhaus Graz and Sputnik Shipping Company, 2009)
  • István Tasnádi: Transit (joint productin of Schauspiel Köln  and Sputnik Shipping Company, 2009)
  • Róbert-Vinnai-Turai-Bodó: The Dice Man  (Sputnik Shipping Company, 2010)
  • Ferenc Molnár: Liliom (Schauspielhaus Graz, 2010)
  • Mikhail Bulgakov: Master and Margarita (joint production of Schauspielhaus Graz and Sputnik Shipping Company, 2010)
  • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: The Cherry Garden (Sputnik Shipping Company, 2011)
  • András Vinnai: The Man at the Table no.2 (joint production of Schauspiel Köln and Sputnik Shipping Company, 2011)
  • Tot im Orient Express (joint production of Staatstheater Mainz, Theater Winterthur and Sputnik Shipping Company, 2011)
  • William Shakespeare: Midsummer’s Night Dream (joint production of Schauspielhaus Graz and Sputnik Shipping Company, 2011)
  • Júlia Róbert – Viktor Bodó: Anamnesis (production of Katona József Theatre, Budapest, 2012)
  • Franz Kafka: Amerika (joint production of Schauspielhaus Graz and Sputnik Shipping Company, 2012)
  • SOCIAL ERROR (joint production of Schauspielhaus Graz — Staatstheater Mainz — Centraltheater Leipzig — Hungarian Theatre of Cluj-Napoca — Fondazione Teatro Due Parma — National Theatre Budapest and Sputnik Shipping Company, 2013)
  • Alfred Jarry: King Ubu (joint production of Theater und Orchester Heidelberg and Sputnik Shipping Company, 2013)
  • A.Chekhov: The Seagull (production of Theater Basel, 2013)
  • N. Gogol: The revisor (production of Vìg Theatre, Budapest, 2014 – pre-production)
  • Das Ballhaus – Le Bal (joint production of Schauspielhaus Graz and Sputnik Shipping Company, 2014 – pre-production)

 

Awards

Best Original Screenplay : Citromfej (awarded by the Student Jury, Hungarian Film Week 2001)

Best Production : Attack (Studio Theatre Workshops, 2002)

Ensemble Award: Jött egy busz (Hungarian Film Week 2003)

The Unhappy Ones (Kisvárda Festival, 2003)

Best Production: The Unhappy Ones (Studio Theatre Workshops, 2003)

Best Direction: Rattledanddisappeared (awarded by the professional jury, National Theatre Meeting POSZT, Pécs 2005)

Best Production: Rattledanddisappeared (awarded by the professional jury, National Theatre Meeting POSZT, Pécs 2005)

Best Direction: Rattledanddisappeared (awarded by the Vastaps Foundation, 2005)

Best Direction: Rattledanddisappeared (Sarajevo MESS International Theatre Festival, 2005)

Best Production of the Year: Rattledanddisappeared (Ljubljana EX PONTO Festival, 2005)

Legjobb előadás: Rattledanddisappeared (International Small Scenes Theatre Festival, Rijeka, 2005)

Best Direction and 2nd Prize for the Best Production: Rattledanddisappeared (KONTAKT International Theatre Festival, Torun, 2006)

Foreign Critics’ Award:  Apartment Block Stories (National Theatre Meeting POSZT, Pécs, 2009)

Nestroy-Award for the set design and art direction of Alice, 2009

Award for the most promising theatrical accomplishment: Apartment Block Stories (National Theatre Meeting POSZT, Pécs, 2009)

Foreign Critics’ Award: The Dice Man (National Theatre Meeting POSZT, Pécs, 2010)

Main Prize: The Dice Man (Alternative Theatre Festival, Budapest, 2010)

Best Independent Theatre Production of the Year: The Dice Man (Hungarian Theatre Critics’ Award, 2010)

Audience Award: The Dice Man (Ljubljana Ex Ponto Festival, 2010)

Golden Mask Award for the Best Foreign Production of the Year, The Hour When We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Moscow, 2010

Mari Jászai Prize, Hungary, 2011

Best direction: The Dice Man (International Small Scenes Theatre Festival, Rijeka, 2011)

Sàndor Hevesi Prize, Hungary, 2012