Saviana Stanescu

Saviana thinks (a lot), writes (a great deal) and teaches (part-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 her NYU teaching, Saviana leads playwriting workshops on on-going basis.

most recent: January 2009,  Stockholm, Sweden. March 2009, Mexico City.

For group or individual sessions: $100 / hour

For applications: 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:

"Aliens with extraordinary skills", off-Broadway at Women's Project (published by Samuel French),

"Waxing West" (2007 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Full-length Script)

"YokastaS Redux", co-authored with Richard Schechner, at La MaMa Theatre.

She teaches at New York University.

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.

Her work has been published by: Samuel French, Smith&Kraus, Heinemann Drama, New York Theatre Experience, United Stages, Spuyten Duyvil,  Seagull Press, Fisher Verlag, Unitext, MLR, Polirom, Vinea, etc
(see more details in the BIO section)

 YOU CAN BUY

"Aliens With Extraordinary Skills" published by Samuel French  HERE.

 WHITE EMBERS at Dramalabbet, Stockholm, Sweden

ONGOING, UNTIL NOVEMBER: check out Ciprian Muresan's video installation with my play DOG LUV at the Venice Biennale, in Italy !!!

( a good reason to go to Venice on vacation ... :)