Saviana Stanescu

writer

(playwright, poet, screenwriter, blogger, journalist, teacher)

 

SAVIANA STANESCU
1268 Amsterdam Ave #3A
New York, NY 10027

RECENT PRODUCTIONS

 

 

"Waxing West" by Saviana Stanescu, directed by Benjamin Mosse, La MaMa Theatre, New York
(2007 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Full-length Script)

Marnye Young (Daniela)  and Dan Shaked (Elvis) - photo by Scott Eastman

  • "E-DATING Project" by Saviana Stanescu, directed by Gia Forakis (developed with the cast in Saviana's class Performance Technique at Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in New York)

     

  • "Vicious Dogs on Premises", at Ontological Theatre, a dance-theatre piece created by Witness Relocation, script by Saviana Stanescu
    listen to a super-podcast: the interview that Martin Denton did with Stanescu and Safer.

  • "INFANTA. USER'S GUIDE" by Saviana Stanescu (UK production)
    directed by Vasile Nedelcu, starring Erica Blaxland-de Lange goes to Edinburgh Festival! (August 1-10) after undergroundezero festival in New York City and Berlin 100 Grad Festival

  • "Waxing West" by Saviana Stanescu, directed by Benjamin Mosse, La MaMa Theatre, New York
    (2007 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Full-length Script)

     

    Grant Neale (Ceausescu), Marnye Young (Daniela)  and Alexis McGuinness (Elena Ceausescu) - photo by Scott Eastman

  • "I Want What You Have" by Saviana Stanescu, a site-specific piece directed by Gia Forakis, at the World Financial Center
    (part of "Girls just wanna have fund$", produced by     Women's Project)

     

     

     

    With: Tamilla Woodard, Chriselle Almeida, LeeAnne Hutchison. Costumes: Alixandra Gage Englund

  • "YokastaS Redux" by Saviana Stanescu and Richard Schechner, at La MaMa Theatre

     

    Rachel Bowditch, Daphne Gaines, Sarah Kozynn, Phyllis Johnson

  • "Lenin's Shoe" by Saviana Stanescu, directed by Daniella Topol - barebones production at The Lark

     

    With: William Carden, Jennifer Dorr-White, Walter Masterson, Amir Arison, Florin Penisoara, Jessica Warner, Shawn-Coulin Young

  • JAZZY TAROT - libretto by Saviana Stanescu, music by Mircea Tiberian, Metropolis Theatre, Bucharest


  • "Suspendida" by Saviana Stanescu,costumes/set by Oana Botez, choreography by Irina Poulos, music by Lucian Ban - Ontological Theatre, New York

     

    With Irina Constantine Poulos, lighting by Lucas Krech

  • "Body Maps", a dance-theatre piece with text by Saviana Stanescu, at 45 Bleecker Street Theatre
    (part of New York Fringe Festival)

     

    choreography by Natasa Trifan,

    costumes by Oana Botez, music by Lucian Ban

 COMING UP:

 August 1 -10, 2008 

"INFANTA. USER'S GUIDE" - starring Erica Blaxland-de Lange goes to Edinburgh Festival!

after being part of the UNDERGROUNDZERO Festival in New York City 

 

September 2008

ALIENS (with extraordinary skills)

is getting produced off-Broadway
by Women's Project at Julia Miles Theatre!!! (The NYSCA commission)

 

December 2008

59E59 Theatre

Saviana's dramatization of Paul Auster's Timbuktu, directed by Richard Schechner

 

SAVIANA STANESCU
1268 Amsterdam Ave #3A
New York, NY 10027