Árpád Sopsits

Árpád Sopsits (Szeged, born 2 May 1952) Béla Balázs Prize-winning (1994) theatre and film director, screenwriter.

He started his studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Debrecen, Cours of Folk Culture and Library. Between 1975 and 1979 he studied directing at the Academy of Drama and Film in Buadapest the class of Károly Makk. From 1974 he worked at the Institute of Philosophy at Semmelweis University, and later as a scriptwriter for Mafilm. In 1994 he was awarded the Béla Balázs Prize.

He has worked at the Budapesti Kamaraszínház (2001–2004, 2008, 2011), the Gyulai Várszínház (2002, 2010), the Új Színház (2003), the Szabadkai Népszínház (2005), the National Theatre (2006, 2009), the Merlin Theatre (2011), the Vígszínház (2012) and at the Szekszárdi Német Színház (2013).

Number of performances registered in the Színházi Adattár; as author: 5 , as actor: 2 , as director: 19 ; as set designer: 9; as costume designer: 2.

Designer means: scenographer (s) or/and costume designer (cd)