The company was founded in Baia Mare in 1953 by the graduates of the Hungarian Academy of Music and Theatre under the guidance of György Harag. After graduation, these students have decided not to separate, but to set their own company. Baia Mare has been shown to be suitable for the artistic commencement of the graduates, as there had already worked the Romanian company. That building became the birthplace of the Hungarian company, which later (after the death of the great master) took over his name, working nowadays in Satu Mare, as Harag György Company. (György Harag remembered that these young people have gone together in Bucharest, demanding to be allowed the establishment of the Hungarian section of the State Theatre Baia Mare). This young company named their young teacher Harag György manager and first director:
