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Martin Boross
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Theater and Film Director | Creator-Producer
MFA Candidate in Film Directing, New York University
Martin Boross is a New York-based Hungarian theater and film director and producer working at the intersection of documentary performance, moving image, and civic engagement. His work develops hybrid, participatory formats rooted in social and political realities.
He is the founder and former artistic director of STEREO AKT, a progressive theater collective he led for eleven years, creating and producing original works presented in over 40 cities across 13 countries in Europe and the United States. He also co-founded and led STEREO Workshop, an independent cultural space in Budapest supporting interdisciplinary performance and emerging artists.
He earned his first diploma in 2013 at Budapest’s University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE).
Boross has directed over 25 original theater productions spanning stage, site-specific, operatic, documentary, and participatory/immersive formats, often using devised methodologies, video, and non-actors.
His projects frequently operate at the intersection of artistic experimentation and public engagement.
Alongside his artistic practice, he has an extensive producing background, including co-producing his U.S. guest directing works (New York, Maine, Maryland, New Mexico), organizing theater and film festivals, and working across directing and producing contexts in film.
Prior to relocating to New York, he was part of a leading generation of independent theater-makers in Hungary and has continued his practice internationally across European and U.S. contexts.
Boross began filmmaking in 2017. He has since directed several short films, a feature-length documentary, and recently premiered his debut feature film, Raw Material.
He received the Junior Prima Prize in 2016, one of Hungary’s most prestigious awards for artists under 30.
He is a receiver of Junior Prima Prize, the most prestigious award for Hungarian artists under 30.
contact: martin@stereoakt.hu
AWARDS
- Special Prize of the Ecumenical Jury of the Hungarian National Film Festival – RAW MATERIAL (2025)
- “Future” Award in recognition of STEREO AKT’s work (2024) – by Hungarian Theatre Critics’ Guild
- Nominations: Best Debut Feature; Best Screenplay – RAW MATERIAL(2024) – Hungarian Motion Picture Film Festival
- Special Mention at National Independent Film Festival, HU – PROMENADE short film (2022)
- Just Film Award – RAW MATERIAL (2022) – Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event – best work-in-progress project in the category “Just Film”
- Best Performance – OUTSTANDING WORKERS (Kiváló Dolgozók) (2021)
audience award at E-Theatre Festival - Best Performance – PROMENADE: Baltimore (2017)
readers’ choice award (Baltimore Magazine) - Junior Prima Prize (2016)
- “TITAN of the year” – for directing BEFORE YOU DIE (Felülről az ibolyát) (2014)
in the framework of an initiative of Füge Productions, one of the most renowned independent production houses in Hungary - Francesc Candel Award (2014)
Given by Lluís Carulla Foundation and the Government of Catalonia for the CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE DIFFERENT KIND for promoting and encouraging the integration of immigrants and promoting good citizenship, coexistence, and the participation of immigrant women and youth.
WORKS
FILM
Raw Material (2023)
debut feature film
Promenade (2022)
short film
Date an Eastern European (2020)
short film
Remake_Bodony (2017)
documentary
THEATRE
Soundfishing (2024)
STEREO AKT
After I left / After I stayed (2024)
STEREO AKT-Budapest Spring Festival
Wonders of Transylvania (2024)
Reactor – Váróterem Projekt – STEREO AKT (Cluj-Napoca, ROM)
Hotel of Change (2022-2023)
STEREO AKT – Zimmertheater Tübingen – Trafó House of Contemporary Arts (Tübingen, DE; Budapest)
ADDRESSLESS: New York (2022)
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater – STEREO AKT (New York, US)
COLONY – Escape Stories (2021)
STEREO AKT – Trafó House of Contemporary Arts (Budapest)
Ex Cathedra (2021)
STEREO AKT – Füge Productions (Budapest)
Outstanding workers (2020)
Örkény István Theatre (Budapest)
European Freaks (2019)
STEREO AKT – Zimmertheater Tübingen (Tübingen, DE; Budapest)
Renewal Painting (2019)
STEREO AKT – Trafó House of Contemporary Arts (Budapest)
PROMENADE: Albuquerque (2018)
Q-Staff Theatre – STEREO AKT (Albuquerque, US)
Semmelweis by Raymond J. Lustig – Matthew Doherty (2018)
Operetta Theatre – Bartók Plusz Opera Festival (Budapest, Miskolc)
Garden of the Protected Men (2018)
STEREO AKT – Füge Productions (Budapest)
Escape Room Europe (2017)
STEREO AKT – hannsjana – Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (Berlin, DE)
PROMENADE: Baltimore (2017)
Single Carrot Theatre – STEREO AKT (Baltimore, US)
Last Chance Clinic by Martin Boross – Gábor Thury (2017)
STEREO AKT – Trafó House of Contemporary Arts (Budapest)
ADDRESSLESS – A Vagabond Role Game (2016)
Lifeboat Unit – STEREO AKT (Budapest)
BUYER’S PARADISE – Tales from the Stock (2016)
Nydanskeren Jimbuts Kulturforening – STEREO AKT – Passage Festival (Helsingor, DK)
ETIQUETTE or The Perfect Human (2016)
STEREO AKT – Füge Productions (Budapest)
We Hear You (2015)
STEREO AKT – Trafó House of Contemporary Arts – Füge Productions (Budapest)
Peekers – Panico Insecto (2014)
STEREO AKT – Szputnyik Shipping Company (Budapest)
Before You Die (2014)
STEREO AKT – Trafó House of Contemporary Arts – Füge Productions (Budapest)
Promenade – Urban Fate Tourism (2013)
Artus – STEREO AKT (Budapest)
The Thirty-Six – The Story of a Fake Messiah by Martin Boross (2012)
Füge Productions – STEREO AKT (Budapest)
Pál Pamlényi Postman Panopticon (2011)
Dinamó Művház – Moving House Foundation (Budapest)
OTHER PROJECTS & ONE-OFF EVENTS
PROvision (2020)
video-performance
About Love (2017)
workshop and interactive performances – Konfrontacje Teatralne Festival (Lublin, PL)
35th Critic Award Ceremony of the Union of Hungarian Critics (2015)
Face to Face (2015-2017)
artistic campaign for LGBTQ rights
Close Encounters of the Different Kind (2014)
community-theatre project
STEREO AKT – FiraTarrega Festival – Füge Productions (Tarrega, SP)
33 mottos (2014)
flashmob in the framework of CAFe Budapest Festival
Behave Yourself! (2013)
site-specific action in Jurányi House