Andrea Tompa

Andrea Tompa (*1971) was born in Cluj/Romania and is a theatre scholar and critic. In 1990 she moved to Hungary and studied Russian literature in Budapest. She teaches at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj. Her scholarly work focuses on Eastern European theatre, especially from Russia and Hungary. Tompa is the editor of the theatre journal Színház and publishes in numerous Hungarian and international publications, for instance in Theater der Zeit and Theater heute. Currently Tompa is president of the Association of Hungarian Theatre Critics. Together with Beata Barda and Tamás Jászay she curated the Hungarian Showcase in 2013. She is the author of the novels The Hangman’s House and Top to Tail.