Orsolya Szantho is a Brooklyn-based Hungarian multimedia designer, creative producer, and filmmaker. Her projects investigate the relationship between the organic and the digital, with a focus on crafting emotionally immersive and physically engaged experiences that move and connect people.

As a projection and multimedia designer for the stage, Orsolya has been creating work internationally and on and off Broadway. She has recently worked as lead animator and associate designer on productions including Left on Tenth (Broadway / James Earl Jones Theatre), The Connector (MCC Theater), Emigre (NY Phil / Lincoln Center), White Girl in Danger (Second Stage), and Macbeth (Broadway / Longacre Theatre), with the work receiving multiple award nominations from the Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards, among others.

As a lead designer and animator, her work has been showcased at The Kennedy Center, the Prague Quadrennial, Bayreuther Festspiele, Juilliard, MIT, Harvard TDM, the Hungarian National Gallery, Gamiotics Studios, and more.

As a filmmaker, Orsolya’s practice focuses on editing and post-production, especially for short film projects. Films featuring her visual effects and editing work have been screened internationally at platforms including SXSW, Sundance, Cannes, Short of the Week, The New Yorker Magazine, New Hampshire Film Festival, and Imagine Science Film Festival, among others.
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Orsolya holds a BA in Theater and Film & New Media from NYU and an MSc in Creative Computing from the University of the Arts London. During her formal education, she trained and helmed projects in the UAE, the US, the UK, Cuba, India, and China, with the support of organizations such as the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, Movement Research, and The Science New Wave/ Labocine.

With  Chilean theatermaker Attilio Rigotti, Orsolya co-founded the arts and design company GLITCH. In a core creative team of four, they focus on creating work combining interactive and digital media with physical experiences and live performance.