Alexander Beke

* February 26, 1939, Csilizradvány / Slovak Hungarian director, theatre director, hereditary member of the Géza Gárdonyi Theatre ; ; His parents were József Beke and Ilona Füssy. Between 1954 and 1958 he was a student at the Hungarian Teacher Training College in Bratislava. Between 1959 and 1963 he studied acting at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Bratislava, and between 1963 and 1968 he studied theatre directing at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in the class of Kálmán Nádasdy. In 1969 he founded the Thália Theatre in Košice. In 1976 he came to Hungary for political reasons. Between 1976 and 1978 he was the director of the Miskolc National Theatre. In 1978 he moved to Hungary with his family. Between 1978 and 1984 he was the chief director of the Katona József Theatre in Kecskemét, and between 1984 and 1990 he was the director of the People's Theatre. Between 1990 and 1994 he was the director and director of the Jókai Theatre in Komárno. Since 1994 he has been the secretary general and member of the board of the Hungarian Theatre Association. Between 1996 and 2001 he was the director and director of the Gárdonyi Géza Theatre in Eger. Between 2001 and 2010 he was the director and artistic advisor of the Thália Theatre in Kász. In 2005 he was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary. In 2019 he received the MMA Theatre Arts Award. ; He married Erzsébet Plank in 1964. They had two sons: Artúr (1965) and Zsolt (1971). ; ; – His main productions: Matesz: William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. Mihály Vörösmarty: Csongor and the Fairy. Imre Dobozy: The Tempest. Kassai Thalia Stage: Henrik Ibsen: The Haunted. Sándor Gál: The Grey Horse. Osvald Záhradník: For Whom the Clock Tolls. Károly Szakonyi: The Mistake. Jean-Paul Sartre: The Prisoners of Altona. Jenő Józsi Tersánszky: Marci Kakuk. Áron Tamási: The Songbird. Imre Sarkadi: Paradise Lost. Jean Cocteau: Terrible Parents. Jókai Theatre in Komáromi: Alfred de Musset: Lorenzaccio. András Sütő: Cain and Abel. Fyodor Mihajlovics Dostoyevsky: The Half-Wit. István Örkény: Cat's Play. István Örkény: Tóték, Molière: The Miser. Gyula Háy: Mohács. Tadeusz Rózewicz: White Marriage. Imre Madách: The Tragedy of Man. Kassai Thália Theatre: N. Richard Nash: The Rainmaker. Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire. László Dobos.: The Wanderers. William Shakespeare: Hamlet. István Csurka: Dead Mines. Friedrich Schiller: Intrigue and Love. Sándor Gál: The Porch of Hell. József Ratkó: Help the King. Sándor Márai.: The Candles Burn to a Stub. ; – Main works: The History of Directing (1974), Our Time and Our Poetry – Literary Compilation. ; – Awards, recognitions: Theatre Art Award of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2019), Golden Cross of Merit of the Hungarian Republic (2005), 5th Festival of Hungarian Theatres Across the Border, Best Direction Award (1993). – Ir. György Székely: Hungarian Theatre Arts Lexicon (1994), Péter Kolár and co-authors: Forty Years of the Thália Theatre in Košice (2009), László Tóth (together with Tamás Gusztáv Filep): Eighty Years of Hungarian Theatre in (Czechoslovakia) 1918–1989 (1999), Theatre Yearbooks (OSZMI Budapest), Divadlá na Slovensku (From the 1970/71 season to 2010/11), Adrienne Darvay Nagy: Plays in Kisvárda (1998), Anna Ötvös: Those We May Meet (2000).