Brigitta Kovács is an artist manager & cultural producer. Since 2018, she has dedicated her work to support emerging artists in developing their career, finding collaborators, funding, presentation opportunities locally and internationally.

She is working as a freelancer cultural producer, but in an official Partnership with Workshop Foundation since 2023, as they are mutually supporting each other in development, strategy and project implementations. Brigitta is responsible for the international development of the Foundation in collaboration with director Gergely Talló, and works as the project manager of the Creative Europe projects WSF is involved in. She is the co-initiator and main project coordinator of the Next Stage program. 

In 2021 she was a CEC ArtsLink fellow, hosted by Movement Research (NYC) and has been running exchanges between the US and Hungary ever since. She is producer and co-curator of Hungary L!ve Festival, an interdisciplinary festival showcasing Hungarian contemporary artworks and artists in New York.

The different activities are linked by her mission is to improve the precarious working conditions of artists and cultural workers in the performing arts field, and initiate mutually beneficial partnerships that can aid more sustainable career paths and strategies.

Mara Nedelcu has been active as a cultural manager in the performing arts since 2012. Navigating between disciplines and challenging existing structures, she has developed a rich network through various collaborations with independent artists, curators and institutions from the region and beyond (focus on Eastern Europe and East and Southeast Asia): Choy Ka Fai, Maria Judova, MichaelDouglas Kollektiv, Bettina Masuch, Florian Malzacher, WASP Bucharest, Tanzfabrik Berlin, tanzhaus Düsseldorf. In 2023, together with Andreea Capitanescu and 4Culture, she launched the ‘Celebrating Trouble’ conference as part of the Timisoara Cultural Capital of Europe programme. Together with Franziska Hauser, she founded the production office Nedelcu&Hauser and manages the production of the internationale tanzmesse nrw 2022, 2024, Tanz NRW Festival 2023, 2025 and the Dance Research NRW programme of NRWKultursekretariat. The office was supported by Neustart Kultur funding in 2022 and by the European Union in 2023-2025.

She helps with several different projects, tour management and administrative tasks as well.Franziska Hauser is a freelance cultural manager. From 2011 to 2019 she was part of the artistic administration office at tanzhaus nrw, from February 2018 in the position of deputy director. In 2021, she joined the production management team at Ringlokschuppen Ruhr. Since 2020 she has been production manager of the festival tanz nrw. Since 2021 she has supported the Kulturbüro Krefeld in the organisation of the event series at Fabrik Heeder. Since 2020 she complements the Klangkollektiv Düsseldorf as a producer. Together with Mara Nedelcu, she founded the production office Nedelcu&Hauser and manages the production of the internationale tanzmesse nrw 2022, 2024, Tanz NRW Festival 2023, 2025 and the Dance Research NRW programme of NRWKultursekretariat. The office was supported by Neustart Kultur funding in 2022 and by the European Union in 2023-2025.

Director of Workshop Foundation since 2000. In 2013 WSF opened a center with 3 new dance studios, with an open office which is able to welcome 10-12 artists/art managers at the same time.

With the leadership of Gergely Talló WSF offers 50 movement based and dance classes per a week, 4 professional dance studios in two different places in Budapest and works with/for more than 200 artists of the local and international contemporary performing art communities. He regularly holds workshops and presentations on management, and mentors newcomer managers in the field. 

Gergely Talló is active as a curator, expert in different international networks and projects e.g. Aerowaves, Life Long Burning, Nature of Us, Philadelphia-Budapest -Sofia Trilateral Cultural Exchange program and he is partner of Movement Research GPS program.

Nikos Mavrakis is the founder and managing director of TooFarEast, a company that undertakes the production and distribution of contemporary dance, theatre and performance. Working with a team of four, he is exploring unique ways to empower the contemporary performing arts of the Balkan and Mediterranean regions, looking for and channeling ideas around the world, working on international projects, establishing long lasting relationships and touring great art.

His international collaborations vary in scale, genre and impact. Notably: MA by Romeo Castellucci, Human Requiem in Eleusis by Jochen Sandig & Sasha Waltz, ELENIT, TITANS and RELIC by Euripides Laskaridis, Mount Olympus by Jan Fabre, U(r)topias – Academy of Choreography by Patricia Apergi, Giselle by Korsia, Participatory Ephemeral Monument by Olivier Grossetete, History History History by Deborah Pearson and Un Autre Mystere by Julie Desprairies.

TooFarEast is proudly supporting under-represented artists from all backgrounds, currently collaborating and representing the emerging Albanian director Mario Banushi and the queer Cypriot choreographer Panos Malactos.