Saviana Stanescu

writer

(playwright, poet, screenwriter, performer, teacher, ARTivist, journalist, curator)

SAVIANA STANESCU

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Saviana thinks (a lot), writes (a great deal) and teaches (full-time).

What about you? Why don't you :

see/produce/publish/award her plays (recommended),

hire her to teach playwriting workshops and theatre/drama/writing courses (required),

read her blog (suggested),

drop her an email (if you have something witty to say or a commission to offer :-)

Playwriting WORKSHOPS

Besides teaching at NYU and ESPA - Primary Stages, and visiting teaching/lecturing at many institutions including Columbia University, Pace Univ., Fordham Univ., Arizona Univ, etc, Saviana leads playwriting workshops on on-going basis.

See LECTURES/WORKSHOPS page

Read Saviana's nytheatre.com INTERVIEW about her teaching at Einhorn School for Performing Arts (ESPA) - Primary Stages:

For group or individual sessions EMAIL SAVIANA

Saviana Stanescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, on a cold February morning during Ceausescu’s dictatorship, and “reborn” in New York in the hot days of 2001.

Her plays have been widely presented internationally and in the US. Recent New York productions include:

For a Barbarian Woman directed by Niegel Smith, a co-production Fordham/EST

Aliens with extraordinary skills directed by Tea Alagic, at Women's Project (published by Samuel French) BUY THE BOOK HERE

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

YokastaS Redux directed/co-authored by Richard Schechner, at La MaMa Theatre

Since 2004 Saviana has been a Drama Instructor at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.

She has also taught at Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) - Primary Stages and Strasberg Theatre&Film Institute.

Currently she is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Playwriting & Theatre Studies at Ithaca College, Theatre Arts.

Fellowships/Awards:

Innovative Theatre for Outstanding Script, Marulic Prize for Best European Radiodrama, NYSCA playwright in residence with Women's Project, TCG, Fulbright, Goldberg, MacLaine, Antoine Vitez, Best Romanian Play of the Year 2000 UNITER Award.
(see more details in the BIO section)

Representation:

Elaine Devlin, Elaine Devlin Literary Agency. 20 W. 23rd St. 3rd floor. New York, NY 10010. Tel: 212-206-8160. Fax: 212-206-8168. E-mail: edevlinlit@aol.com

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