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Saviana Stanescu
writer (poet, playwright), drama critic & cultural journalist
Born: February 22, 1967, Bucharest
Married: Saviana Condeescu
Studies
- 1985-1990 - Computer Science and Media Technology Faculty, Polytechnic University Bucharest
- 1990-1992 - Cultural Journalism Postgraduate Courses
- 1993-1994 - UNITER Postgraduate course in theatre criticism UNIPROF
- 1997 - 'International Association of Theatre Critics’ Seminar for Young Theatre Critics, Czech Republic
- 1999 - International Theatre Academy RUHR, Germany, playwriting course
- 2000 – Fellow of the British Council Cambridge Seminar, Cambridge University, UK
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2001-2002
- Fulbright scholar – Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, MA in Performance Studies (Leigh Odom Memorial Award
for Distinguished Masters Student).
Currently enrolled in the MFA
program in Dramatic Writing, NYU Tisch School of the
Arts (Department Fellowship)
Fellowships
-
2000
- Fellow of the British Council CAMBRIDGE SEMINAR, Cambridge University
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2001
- writer-in-residence of KulturKontakt in Vienna. Austria
- 2002
- Antoine Vitez Center Fellowship for “Final Countdown” (published in French), Paris
Professional experience
- 1992-1997 - editor for ADEVARUL Daily, Culture Department (articles/reviews on drama, film, book; essays, interviews)
- 1992-1997 - editor/theatre critic for the literary supplement of ADEVARUL Daily: ADEVARUL LITERAR SI ARTISTIC
- 1997 - editor for MANUSCRIPTUM ( a Romanian literary history magazine)
- 1997-2000 - Member of the Organizing Committee of “British and Romanian Contemporary Writing” Seminar,
Oradea, Romania - a British Council initiative
- 1998 - interdisciplinary projects coordinator, theatre adviser – RLM
- 2000 - Representative of Romania at International Poetry Festival Struga, Macedonia
- 2000-2001 - TVRi ‘Polemics we need’ cultural talk-show presenter, playwright, theatre reviewer
- Curator and guest-artist for the 2002 performing arts Festival “Kontext EUROPA” (focus: Balkans), Theater des
Augenblicks, Vienna, Austria
- Co-coordinator of the Romanian-German anthology ‘Viele…File’
- Initiator and co-coordinator of ‘gendeRhapsody’ (Romanian Women monologues) project, supported by ProHelvetia
- Editor, curator, theatre advisor, interdisciplinary projects coordinator for the
Museum of Romanian Literature (MRL), Bucharest
Contributions
- TVR, TVRi (Public Television, International Department)
- Radio FREE EUROPE, Radio Romania Cultural Broadcast
- ADEVARUL, Norii (internet magazine), RESPIRO (internet magazine), “ultimaT”,
“Fotografia&Video” art magazine, “Contemporanul” Magazine, “Ziarul
Financiar” (English Cultural page), “Ziarul de Duminica”,
- THE STAGE, OKEAN (theatre magazines)
- Freelance arts/theatre reviewer for: http://www.nytheatre.com
(New York)
- Co-Founder (together with Aristita Albacan) of the WOM theatre company, specialized on women topics
Publications
as playwright/poet
- 1994 - Love on the barbed wire (poems), Phoenix Publishing House
- 1996 - Advice for housewives and muses (dramatic poems, prose), Eminescu Publishing
House
- 1997 - Proscrisa/Outcast, (dramatic poem), Cartea Romaneasca Publishing House, “The Poets of Bucharest City”
Collection
- 1998 - Outcast (an adapted text) in “New Romanian Plays”, Dramafest ’98
- 2000 - The Inflatable Apocalypse - Best Romanian play of the year, UNITER National
Competition, Unitext Publishing House
- 2001 – Black Milk – four plays (English-Romanian anthology), Museum of Romanian Literature
- 2002 – Compte a Rebours (Final Countdown) – a play, Antoine Vitez Center Award, “L'Espace d'un instant” Publishing House ,
Paris, France
- 2003 - Diary of a Clone - poetry, "Spuyten Duyvil", New York
- 2005 - Waxing West - drama, Teatrul Imposibil Press, Romania
- 2006 - Google me! - poetry, Vinea International Press, Bucharest-New York
anthologies
- 1997 - poems in '29 Romanian women-poets' (Romanian-Polish),
University Press
- 1998 - Outcast (an adapted text) in New Romanian Plays, Dramafest
'98 and 'After the censorship' (French-English), Unitext
Publishing House
- 2004 - Jelly-Love and Peanut-Butter, in Estrogenius, PlaySource
Press
- 2005 - excerpts from Waxing West and Lenin's Shoe,
in The Playwrights' Center - Monologues for Women, Heinemann
Drama
- 2006 - Aurolac Blues, in Plays and Playwrights 2006, New York Theatre
Experience and in Best P)lays of 2005, Smith & Kraus
- Lenin's Shoe in Sibiu International Theater Festival's New Drama
Anthology
- ‘Viele…file’ (poetry, Romanian-German)
staged texts/performances
- 1997 - ELEADA - directed by Dan Victor, ‘At the Museum’ Theatre
- 1997 - OUTCAST - self performance, Bucharest, CLUB A
- 1998 - LA PROSCRITE – script-in-hand performance directed by Anita
Picchiarini, Paris, Theatre “Gerard Philipe” de Saint-Denis (“Du monde entiere”
programme)
- 1999 - performance “THE INFANTAS” – (Bucharest and Munich, Germany) in the context of the painting&text exhibition:
Maria Lie-Steiner/Saviana Stanescu
- 1999 - THE SHOP WINDOW (co-author Peter Shragher) – directed by Teodora Herghelegiu
(MRL - 'At the Museum' Theatre, Cine-Club MARTIN)
- 1999 - OUTCAST – directed by Vasile Nedelcu, Dramatic Theatre Galatzi
- 1999 - International Theatre Academy RUHR, Germany (playwriting) co-author for “THE YEARNING FOR LIFE”, site specific project
in ZOLLVEREIN mine, directed by Orit Azaz (London)
- 2000 - THE INFLATABLE APOCALYPSE – directed by Gavril Pinte, Radio Romania Broadcast
- 2000 - BLACK MILK – directed by Radu Afrim, Transit Foundation Cluj, ‘Nameless’
Synagogue, altFest Festival
- 2000 - INFANTA : USERS’ GUIDE – directed by Radu Afrim, ARIEL UNDERGROUND Theatre, Tg
Mures, Piatra Neamtz International Theatre Festival, touring in Eastern Europe
- 2000 - PUZZLE POINT ZERO – multi-media event, poetry-performance together with Ioana
Ieronim, directed by Calvin Mc Clinton (USA), Museum of Romanian Literature
- 2000 THE FINAL COUNTDOWN – directed by Teo Herghelegiu, ACT Theatre, Bucharest
- 2001 - SILICON VALLEY – one-woman-show with Mihaela Radescu, directed by Aristita
Albacan, ‘gendeRhapsody’ project (women-monologues) run by Saviana Stanescu&Aristita
Albacan, MRL/MAD/ICCA Bucharest, Sibiu International Festival, ATELIER Festival etc
- 2001 - OUTCAST - directed by Vasile Nedelcu, ‘Le grande maguy’ pub
- 2001 OCEAN CAFE (co-author)– directed by Radu Afrim, Piatra Neamtz Youth Theatre
- 2001 – STORAGE ROOM 636 – an installation co-authored with Rodrigo
Tisi, Jaime Conde and Desha Daemgen – New York University, 6th floor, Performance Studies
Department
- 2001-2002 poetry readings/performances in UK (London, Salisbury, Swansea, Bath Literature Festival), Vienna (Austria),
Philadelphia (Penn State University), New York (NYU – Tisch School of the Arts, International House), Smith College
(Massachusetts)
- 2002 – FINAL COUNTDOWN (French version), Balkanisation Generale, PARIS, France
- 2002 – DEADLINE (visartist) – performance in absentia, Kontext Europa, Vienna, Austria
- 2002 – BODY MAPS, NEW YORK International Fringe Festival (text, concept, co-directing)
- 2002 – SCRIPTease, video-poetry performance, WOMEN CENTER STAGE festival,
Culture Project, 45 Bleecker Theater, New York; Romanian Cultural Center New York; New York University, Tuesday
Series
- 2002 – FLESH BACK, Producers Club, Manhattan
- 2002 – SILICON VALLEY, Menschenbuene, Vienna, Austria
- in progress: PARCOURS D’ARGILE III (Gilgames epic - a contemporary adaptation) – international project directed by Barbara
Bouley, “Un Excursus” Company, Paris
lectures/workshops
- 2001, March – London University, School of Slavonic and East European Studies,
guest lecturer, “Women artists in Eastern Europe”
- 2001, April – Vienna, invited panelist, Kultur Kontakt & ORF seminar on Romania
- 2001, October – New York University, “Memory Matters” Symposium,
Invited Presenter: ”Flagstory: flagshock, flagshop, flagshow”
- 2001, November – Romanian Cultural Center New York, Theatre Panel
Chairperson
- 2002, March – Smith College, Massachusetts: invited lecturer, “Romanian Theatre and its Ghosts”
- 2002, July – Catskill Festival for New Theater (North American Cultural Laboratory),
invited panelist, lecture: “Performing hi/stories, mapping narratives. An e-motional
geography”
- 2002, August – New York Fringe International Festival Faculty
Member, “Performing Yourself/Discovering Yourself” workshop teacher
Affiliations
- Dramatist Guild
- NoPassport, Theater without Borders, League of Professional Theater Women
- Romanian Writers Union
- Romanian Association of Professional Writers (ASPRO)
- International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC)
- Romanian Theatre Union (UNITER)
- Board Member of the International Center of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
- Actors Studio (Playwright/Director Unit), New York
- Performance Studies International
Prizes and Awards
- 1992 – 'Lucian Blaga' Festival Poetry Award
- 1998 – Bucharest Writers Association Poetry Award
- 1999 – 'Poesis' Award for Theatre-Poem
- 2000 – Best Romanian Play of the Year UNITER National Award
- other local poetry & theatre awards
Foreign Languages
- Romanian, English: fluent
- German, French: functional
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