| July 1998 to present | Sending out my own on-line publication, "Column
in Search of a Name". Working on a self-referential novel combining a collection of short stories: The Road To Hell Isn't Paved At All, a drama: "There Go Discarded I" and a screenplay: "?!?" (research period) |
| April to May 1998 | Second version of the novel Fifty Pairs Of Silk Stockings. (home published) |
| February to April 1998 | Second version of the novel A Creative Writing Drop Out. (home published) |
| October 1997 to February 1998 | Second version of the novel Price Tag for Your
Wives. (home published) Foreign Correspondent for Romanian public TV station, TVR1 and Romanian papers |
| May to present 1997 | Worked on the novel I Will Always Stand By You, As Long As The Earth Will Carry Me On Its Back (research period) |
| March to May 1997 | Worked on the novel Fifty Pairs Of Silk Stockings (first draft) |
| January to March 1997 | Worked on the novel A Creative Writing Drop Out (first draft) |
| September to December 1996 | Worked on the novel Price Tag for Your Wives, part one: "The Whimpening" - " The Writeress" - "The Helperers" (first draft) |
| August 1996 | Research trip to France, worked in the library of the Gypsy Research Center and read my plays in several Parisian literary cafes |
| July 1996 to present | Freelance reporter for Budapest Week (English language weekly) |
| July to December 1996 | Freelance reporter for Short Cuts Radio Read, then performed weekly the play Audition To "Mom', We Are Too White To Be Gypsies?!" at Egyetemi Szinpad |
| March to July 1996 | Worked on the performance Audition To "Mom', We Are Too White To Be Gypsies?!" (home published) |
| December 1995 to January 1996 | Worked on the performance "We Go to Edinburgh By Hook Or By Crook!". (home published) Performed fragments of it on Tilos Radio - English language program |
| September to December 1995 | Worked on a video documentary Why Are You So Serious? - (unedited) |
| 1995 to present | Gathered material for the book Am I Too White To Be A Gypsy? (unfinished). |
| July to August 1995 | Research trip to USA part of the work on Am I Too White To Be A Gypsy?, a novel focusing on discrimination's effects |
| January to May 1995 | Public relations officer for the Roma Artistic Association Kalyi Jag |
| November 1994 to July 1995 | Free lance reporter for Nepszava, (Hungarian daily), Radio Central Europe Today (Budapest, Warsaw, Prague) |
| February to November 1994 | Intern then freelance reporter at The Budapest Sun (English language weekly) |
| December 1993 to May 1994 | Wrote my first short stories: "How We Divorced My Father" and "Just Another Rape" |
| September 1991 to October 1992 | Clerk (Alfasoft-Rank Xerox dealer in Bucharest) |
| January 1990 to September 1991 | Teacher (Kindergarten no. 215 Bucharest) |
| September 1987 to October 1989 | Clerk (the Channel Danube-Bucharest) |
| August 1984 to August 1986 | Dressmaker for Fondul Plastic Bucharest and Actress (Youth Theatre "Podul"-Bucharest) |
| January to August 1984 | Baby sitter. |
| October 1983 to December 1984 | Clerk (Post Office no.1, Zalau) |
| August 1998 to present | Graduate student in the MFA Creative Writing Program (Louisiana State University), Baton Rouge, the U.S.A. |
| September 1997 | Internship at Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty in Prague |
| July 1994 | Summer American Institute on Political and Economic Systems in Prague |
| 1993 to 1998 | Student in American Studies (Eotvos Lorand University
of Budapest) American Journalism Center Budapest Center for Independent Journalism |
| 1992 to 1993 | Preparatory Language International Institute Kodolany Janos (Budapest) |
| Summer 1992 | Summer University at Debrecen University, Hungary |
| 1991 to 1992 | Student in Hungarian and English (University of
Bucharest) Student in Romanian and English - courses without frequency (University of Bucharest) |
| July 1983 to July 1990 | Private lessons in acting with Cristian Ciubotaru, Nicolae Iliescu, Ovidiu Moldovan, Catalin Naum, Anca Neculce, and Rodica Tapalaga |
| 1982 | Graduated from the Lyceum of Mathematics and Physics, Zalau (Romania) |
Citizenship: Romanian
Languages: Fluent in English, Hungarian and
Romanian; proficient in French.
Computer skills: Windows
3.11, Microsoft Word 6.0, Apple Mac, HTML, FrontPage Express,
Adobe 5.0
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