Reka Katona graduated as an art historian and literature scholar (Budapest ELTE). Afterwards she begun her PhD in Theory of Education PhD. She started to employ Theatre of the Oppressed methodology in 2011, which in 2014-2015 she thoroughly studied in Barcelona (La Xixa Theatre, Ma(g)dalenas Movement). She has worked in the Artists in School Project supported by tranzit.org/Erste Stiftung. She was the founder member of the first women only Theatre of the Oppressed group in Hungary, the Magdalenas Budapest. As a researcher she is publishing papers about Theatre of the Oppressed groups and performances in Hungary.

In 2024 I am working for Utcaszak Theatre Company.