
Kata Csató – puppet theatre director, actress, cultural manager and teacher of puppet theatre acting and directing for puppet theatre. She graduated from Department of Cultural Organisation (specialisation: theatrical) at Janus Pannonius Academy in Pécs, Hungary in 2000. In 2001 she enrolled at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Academy of Theatre Arts – Puppet Theatre Art Department in Białystok and graduated in 2006 with a degree in both specializations: puppet theatre acting and directing. Since 2008 she has been pursuing a PhD degree at at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Academy of Theatre Arts – Puppet Theatre Art Department in Białystok, Poland.
She has received many awards for her work, and recently also for best directorial prizes (best directing in ‘Theatre Festival for Children’ – Subotica, in ‘Spring Festival’ – Krasnoyarsk, in ‘International Puppet Festival’ – Kurgan, in ‘UNIMA Puppet Festival for Children’ – Békéscsaba and in ‘Puppet Festival for Adult’ – Pécs).
She is a founding member and from autum 2021 she is the president of the Freeszfe Society.
From 2024 she is a head of the Mesebolt Bábszínház institut, Szombathely, Hungary.




