Ildiko Lujza Nemeth is the founder and artistic director of The New Stage Theatre Company (NSTC) and has served as the Director on all five of the company’s productions.  She is a native of Hungary and a veteran of Eastern European experimental theatre.  Her desire to bring this form of theatrical expression to the US drove her to move to New York City in 1998.  Nemeth graduated with a Master’s Degree from the Actor’s Studio Drama School in 2002 and started NSTC the same year. 

NSTC is committed to enriching Contemporary American Theatre by bringing artists together from around the world and developing works which embrace their diverse cultural and artistic traditions. The New Stage Theatre Company is dedicated to taking artistic risks by creating works, which overcome the limitations of language, customs and theatrical conventions.

Nemeth has garnered numerous prizes, such as the Guardian Critics' Choice Award at the Scotland Fringe Festival in Edinburgh and the Best Performance Award at the International Gombrowicz Festival in Poland.  NSTC’s most recent production, “Some Historic, Some Hysteric”, which she directed and co-created, received excellent reviews and was nominated for the 2007 IT Awards in three categories.