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Edith Kaldor was born in Budapest. She immigrated as a child to the United States. She studied literature and drama at Columbia University, New York and University College, London.  Between 1993 and 2000, she worked with Peter Halasz (Squat theater/Love theater, New York) as dramaturge and video-maker. After enrolling at DasArts (the postgraduate performing arts centre in Amsterdam) in 2000, she started writing and directing her own theatre pieces and soon received international acclaim.
Currently she lives and works in Amsterdam, and makes intimate, existential theatre performances, such as Or Press Escape (2002), New Game (2004), Drama (2005) and Point Blank (2007), which push the boundaries of theatre, and often integrate the use of documentary elements and of various digital media in a straightforward, simple way. In recent years her work has toured widely in Europe and beyond.