Hungarian puppet and set designer. Trained as a musician, she was a member of the Budapest based company Művész Színház (Art Theatre) in 1947-1948. As puppet and set designer at the Állami Bábszínház (State Puppet Theatre) from 1951, her lovable characters became famous among children. Bródy exerted a great influence on the entire puppetry world in Hungary. She is the creator of the pig character Mazsola (Raisin), a well-known Hungarian television show that was later broadcast in Europe. Bródy was awarded the Munkácsy Prize in 1959 and the Mari Jászai Prize in 1967.

Among the shows on which she collaborated are: Misi Mókus kalandjai (The Adventures of Michael the Squirrel, 1952 and 1961) by Józsi Jenő-Tersánszky; Hamupipőke (Cinderella, 1957) by Tamara Gabbe and Eszter Tóth; Aladdin csodalámpája (Aladdin’s Magic Lamp, 1960) by Nina Gernet; Toldi (1963) by János Arany and Zoltán Jékely; Szentivánéji álom (1964), based on William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; A fából faragott királyfi (The Wooden Prince, 1965) by Béla Bartók; A kacsalaki rejtély (The Mystery of the Duck Hut, 1966) by Gyula Urbán; Háry János (1972) by Zoltán Kodály; A tűzmadár (1982), based on Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird, directed by Vera Bródy; Kaland a Tigris bolygón (Adventure on the Planet Tiger, 1987) by Klára Fehér; A vihar (1988) after Shakespeare’s The Tempest; A dzsungel könyve (1991) by Géza Balogh adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book; Mi újság a Futrinka utcában? (What’s the News from Futrinka Street?, 2003) by Ágnes Bálint; Mazsola és Tádé (Raisin and Thaddeus, 2010).

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