Zsolt Pozsgai

This play chronicles real events, namely the story of a homicidal maniac on APB and an innocent girl. The man’s face was deformed during action. It is a tragicomedy, one of Pozsgai's most successful creations.

A stage adaptation of Sándor Márai’s internationally renowned novel (Embers) translated into twenty-two languages. A meeting of two elderly men focusing on an old affair in which they loved the same woman. There are three male and two female roles.

Last film: THE DEVOTED /about Kalvin/ 2018, director-producer. Awards in 2018: best feature - Jesus Fest International Film Festival, Argentina / best feature Kolkata International Film Festival, India / Angel Peace Award, Monaco International Film Festival

The Hungarian Theatre Archives reported the number of Pozsgai's registered theatre premieres before March 2015:

This play features two legendary figures of Hungarian humanism and 15th-century Renaissance history: Janus Pannonius, the well-known poet, and his friend King Matthias. Before Janus Pannonius died, he organised a plot against his friend. Ever since this has puzzled Hungarian historians. The play offers one explanation that might have happened. An absurd drama with five roles, one woman and four men.

By the end of 2014, 57 of Pozsgai's pieces, including tragedies, comedies, farces, fairy plays and plays with music, had been premiered in 87 theatres.

Since 2013, Pozsgai has been a self-employed writer, director and producer.

Zsuzsanna Lórántffy, a major figure of the Hungarian Reformation, is the heroine of this historical tragicomedy from the 12th century.

From 2011 onward, Pozsgai wrote and directed many television films.

Set in Hungary in the 11th century, this is a historical absurd drama about the prince who was blinded and his family living in exile, with six characters.

Pozsgai has been the general director of Horatio Film Ltd., Budapest since 2007.

A folk tale which premiered 12 October 2007 at Katona József Theatre in Kecskemet.

Pozsgai started his career as a screenplay writer in the film industry, including the scripts of television series and fiction films. In 2006, he was invited to shoot his very first film titled Csendkút (The Well of Silence). Subsequently, he directed either a new television film, or television play, or feature film each year until 2015. His film titled A föld szeretője (The Lover of the Soil), which was nominated to the "A” category at the International Film Festival of India, was premiered in 2010. After that year it was shown at many festivals around the world.

Pozsgai directed his play Embers, based on a novel by Sándor Márai, at the Théâtre de l'Orangerie in Geneva, Switzerland, in the summer of 2005.

The author was the dramaturge and chief director of the Madách Theatre and after that of the Magyar Theatre in Budapest in that period already. Nearly all of the theatres in the countryside played one of his dramas, many of which were also directed by him. In 2004, he founded the Aranytíz Theatre in Budapest. He was appointed the artistic director of the Komédium Theatre in Budapest as well. Although for a short period of time (between 2011 and 2013), he was appointed the chief director and artistic director of the Új Theatre in Budapest.

In 2000, the very first non-Hungarian premier took place in Graz, Austria in the German language: it was titled the Prófétakeringő (Prophetenwalzer / The Prophet’s Waltz). After that many of his dramas were played in Graz, Austria. This is the city where his creation titled Liselotte és a május (Liselotte und der Mai / Liselotte in May) and Boldog bolondok (Mozart und Konstanze oder Die liebenden Verrückten / Merry madmen) started its series of sensation abroad.

Liselotte in May is the author's most performed play abroad; it has been translated into the English, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Romanian, French, Norwegian, Serbian, Croatian, and Hindi languages. Between 1999 and 2015, it was premiered twenty-two times all over the world from Sofia, Bulgaria to New York City, and from Geneva, Switzerland to Vancouver, Canada. Translated into several languages, his drama Boldog bolondok earned similar acclamation. Translated into the Hindi and Bengali languages, his drama titled A szűz és a szörny (The Virgin and the Beast) was featured in India. In 2014, he wrote Gina és Fidel (Gina and Fidel) which was first premiered in the German language.

In that period, Pozsgai lived in Budapest; he was the dramaturge and director of the Kolibri Theatre there in addition to his job at the metropolitan press. This theatre featured his first play directed for children in 1995. After that, the Madách Theatre of Budapest premiered his drama titled Viaszmadár (Vaxbird), which won the ″Best New Hungarian Drama Award of the year″ (Szép Ernő Award category ″for First Drama″).

In 1992, he was appointed the chief artistic director of the Arizona Theatre where his musical titled "Kölyök" (The Kid), which he compiled in cooperation with conductor Tibor Nagy, debuted with great success. After that, new dramas and new premiers followed one by one at theatres both in Budapest and in the countryside. In 1995, he directed a drama titled "Arthur és Paul" (Arthur and Paul) at the Madách Theatre in Budapest. In 1996, this drama won the Europe Theatre Prize in Berlin that is given to the best new European drama.

Pozsgai has been a director employed frequently by Hungarian and foreign theaters since 1992. His repertoire includes his own works as well as Hungarian and universal classic pieces and those written by modern authors. He is delighted to direct Ibsen's dramas. He directed the theatrical version of Hungarian writer Sándor Márai's novel acclaimed worldwide in the French language in Geneva, Switzerland and Avignon, France. His oeuvre as a writer and director amalgamates in his adaptations of classical novels on stage, such as Stendhal's The Red and the Black, Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs, Dickens' David Copperfield, and others.

Pozsgai compiled his first featured theatrical play, titled Horatio, during the years of his military service. Horatio was directed by Péter Tömöry and was performed at the Hevesi Sándor Theatre in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary in 1988 with great success.

In 1988, Pozsgai founded Pátria Book Publishing at the Pátria Press by the support of the latter; the objective of Pátria Book Publishing is to publish the creations of contemporary Hungarian writers. In the course of its operation, this book publishing business published nearly one hundred books whose writers were nearly all considered contemporary in that period.

Pozsgai wrote his first play during the years of his mandatory military service, which was premiered 1988 in the Hevesi Sándor Theatre in Zalaegerszeg. This drama plays ten years after the demise of Hamlet and features the tragic faith of Horatio who suffers in the "suffocating embrace of power" sustained by the Norwegian Fortinbras.

Between 1987 and 2018, Hungary performed as many as 94 of his dramas, many of which were played many times. These include dramas, tragicomedy, fairy tale plays, scripts of musicals, comedies, and low comedies. One of his best musicals is titled the Monte Cristo grófja (The Count of Monte Cristo) the music and lyrics of which were written by György Szomor.

Between 1987 and 2018, Pozsgai published eight books of drama in the Hungarian language. He frequently publishes articles and reports in Hungarian periodicals.

Pozsgai organized and directed an amateur theatre in Pécs from his childhood until 1982, when he, as a dramaturge and assistant of arts, became employed by the National Theatre of Pécs. He explored many jobs between the day of his graduation from high school in 1979 and his employment in the artistic sector of theatres. He frequently published his creations, primarily poems. These years were the period of his conscious preparation for his career as a writer. For many years, he was the assistant to Menyhért Szegvári, chief director at the National Theatre of Pécs, whom he considered to be his master tutor during his ensuing work as a theatre director. After the chief director quit, Pozsgai also left the theatre and was appointed the editor of the press of literary artworks in Pécs in cooperation with Tibor Tüskés, an excellent historian of literature. In those days, he also attended the University of Sciences in Pécs and performed his mandatory military service.

This is a drama which recounts how Gina Lollobrigida interviewed Fidel Castro in Havana in 1974.

GINA AND FIDEL about meeting between Gina Lollobrigida and Fidel Castro in 1974. First premiere in Graz, 2017. Satirata Theatre, Bulgary 2017. Budapest 2018. In german, english, spanish translation also,

Zsolt Pozsgai (born 20 September 1960 in Pécs) is a Hungarian freelance writer, playwright, stage and film director, and film producer (Horatio Film).

Born in Pécs, in South Hungary, in 1960, Pozsgai become a writer in his early teenage years, and at the age of 14 he was already directing an independent amateur theatre company in Pécs, where he completed his secondary education.