Edit Kaldor was born in Budapest. At the age of 13 she immigrated to the United States, where she lived for ten years. She studied Literature and Theatre at Columbia University, and worked for 7 years 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, which 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), Point Blank (2007), which push the boundaries of theatre, and often integrate the use of documentary elements. In recent years her work has toured widely in Europe and beyond.

"The way in which Kaldor uses the theatre, - a place for collective dialogue - as a platform to show extreme isolation and the inability to communicate is absolutely brilliant."  (La Presse Montréal, Canada)

"The work has a paradoxical directness. We sense here a very strong artistic personality." (Liberation, France)

"It doesn’t look like theatre. But it is. The best kind of theatre that exists." (Folha de São Paulo, Brazil)