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Stephan Balint (born Bálint István 11 July 1943 in Budapest, died 11 October 2007 in Budapest) was a writer, actor, theatre director, and playwright. Balint was co-founder of New York's Squat Theatre where he wrote, acted, and directed L-Train to Eldorado and Full Moon Killer.
Dec 2, 2007 · Stephan Balint, the underground Hungarian writer, actor and director who gained fame in New York with the above-ground Squat Theater in the late 1970s and ’80s, died on Oct. 11 in...
Stephan Balint, an award-winning playwright, poet, actor and co-founder of the seminal New York avant-garde theater group Squat Theater, died on October 11 in Budapest, Hungary. He was 64 years old. The cause was pneumonia following a long illness, confirmed his daughter Eszter Balint.
Eszter Balint was born in Budapest, Hungary, to Marianne Kollar and Stephan Balint. She was living with the avant-garde Squat Theatre troupe in New York City, founded by her father, when she first met Jean-Michel Basquiat. They became involved while he was filming Downtown 81.
The six founding members of Squat Theatre (shown left to right in the 1976 Paris photograph) are Peter (Breznyik) Berg, Marianne Kollar (3rd), Péter Halász, Anna Koós, Stephan Balint and Eva Buchmuller.
Squat Theatre—whose core members included Stephan Balint, Peter Berg, Eva Buchmuller, Peter Halasz and Anna Koos—was a major presence in the downtown art and theater world of New York, where the group lived and worked from 1977 until 1985.
Balint, who is an immigrant and who speaks with an accent, plays a woman who is asked to act, and though she is already acting she refuses, saying to the cab driver: "I think you're an immigrant who doesn't fit, and you're trying to get high off me or something." And the final apocalypse is a complex weave of different levels of representation ...
