Saviana Stanescu
Encyclopedia
Saviana Stănescu is an award-winning Romanian-American
poet
, playwright
and journalist
. She is currently the NYSCA playwright-in-residence for Women's Project, writer-in-residence of East Coast Artists, and Director of New Drama Program for the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York. She teaches at New York University, Tisch School of Arts, Drama Department.
She holds an MA in Performance Studies (Fulbright fellow) and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts.
Romanian-American
A Romanian American is a citizen of the United States who has significant Romanian heritage. For the 2000 US Census, 367,310 Americans indicated Romanian as their first ancestry, while 462,526 persons declared to have Romanian ancestry...
poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, playwright
Playwright
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and journalist
Journalist
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. She is currently the NYSCA playwright-in-residence for Women's Project, writer-in-residence of East Coast Artists, and Director of New Drama Program for the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York. She teaches at New York University, Tisch School of Arts, Drama Department.
She holds an MA in Performance Studies (Fulbright fellow) and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts.
Poetry and plays
- Aliens with Extraordinary Skills - A play, world premiere 2008 at the Women's Project
- Waxing West - a play, 2007 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Full-Length Script
- "Google Me!" - poetry in English
- Black Milk - An English-Romanian anthology of 4 plays
- The Inflatable Apocalypse - A play which won Best Play of the Year 2000 Uniter Award
- The Outcast - A dramatic poem
- Advice for Housewives and Muses - Poetry and prose
- Love on the Barbed Wire - A book of poems
Honors
- 2007 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Full-Length Script
- 2004 John Golden Award for Excellence in Playwriting
- 2002 Antoine Vitez Center award for “Final Countdown” (published in French), Paris
- 2001-2002 Fulbright scholar – Tisch School of the Arts, Performance Studies
- 2001 writer-in-residence of KulturKontakt in Vienna, Austria
- 2000 Fellow of the British Council CAMBRIDGE SEMINAR, Cambridge University
- 2000 Representative of Romania at International Poetry Festival Struga, Macedonia
- 2000 – Best Play of the Year Uniter National Award
- 1999 – 'Poesis' Award for Theatre-Poem
- 1998 – Bucharest Writers Association Poetry Award Nomination
- 1992 – 'Lucian Blaga' Festival Poetry Award