Irisz Kovacs is a theater director and photographer. She was the winner of the festival-competition D-butan-T 2021 and director of the Fresh Start residency at Reactor of Creation and Experiment, where the show Un copil pe un litru de benzină was born, performed in the framework of the Festival "Șerban Ionescu", Fest FDR, Undercloud. She was nominated for the UNITER award for debut for the show 8 fathers at the Constanta State Theatre, selected in the National Theatre Festival. In 2023 she received a new UNITER nomination for directing TSCHICK. Why We Took the Car, a stage adaptation by Robert Koall of the novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf, a GSTT production. He was also awarded the "Iulian Vișa" Prize at the Sibiu International Theater Festival (FITS) in 2024, which is given to young theater creators.