Peca Ştefan won the first dramAcum prize in 2002. He has studied at New York University and he was a participant in the Royal Court Theatre’s residency program for international playwrights in 2005.

Mr. Perjovschi, who lives and works in Bucharest, Romania, has exhibited widely throughout Europe, with recent shows at Tate Modern in London (2006), Portikus in Frankfurt am Main (2006), and Museum Ludwig in Cologne (2005).

For almost 20 years now Lia Perjovschi has been recovering, collecting and disseminating pieces of information which used to be inaccessible in Romania prior to the 1990s. Ideas and notes take on the form of snowflake diagrams. They touch history, art theory, politics and language. She cares less if one calls them art or not. What she is to examine what, how, and ultimately who enters the archive of history.

Gabriel Pintilei is a Romanian actor, theatre director, playwright, scriptwriter, choreographer and acting teacher. His work is strongly linked with the prestigious Odeon Theatre in Bucharest, where he has acted in more than 15 plays, and where his latest award-winning play, BLIFAT, will be staged this upcoming season.

Born in 1933 in Southern Bessarabia (part of Ukraine since the 1940s), Lucian Pintilie studied film and theatre in Bucharest. He began his directing career in theatre before turning to film.

Born in 1938, film director and screenwriter, as well as theatre director, Dan Piţa studied film direction at the Theatre and Cinema Institute in Bucharest. His graduation film, Life in Pink, was awarded in the 1970 Cinestud Festival in Amsterdam.

Daniel Popa performed at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2004 in the MONDAY Theatre production of “You don’t feel it here” by Lia Bugnar, the show that won the Fringe Project Award that year. He is an independent actor regularly working with the Bulandra Theatre and the MONDAY Theatre.

Dr. Ioana Popescu is Director of Research at the Museum of the Romanian Peasant in  Bucharest. She is a contributor to the brochure of the exhibition "Weaving Cultural Heritage. Romanian Rugs from Oltenia, Maramures, and Moldavia Regions" at Down Jersey Folklife Center at WheatonArts (May 8 - September 20, 2009). Read here the full version of her contribution.

Petru Popescu was one of Romania's leading young authors, already from his 1969 debut novel PRINS (CAUGHT), when he immigrated to the United States in 1974. He is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Amazon Beaming and Almost Adam, and the critically acclaimed memoirs The Return and The Oasis. He lives in Beverly Hills with his wife and two children.

Born in 1975. After studying management at the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, he went on to study film directing at the University of Drama and Film in the same city. His short A Trip to the City was awarded in 2004 Cannes Film Festival, while Liviu’s Dream was selected in the 2006 Forum Berlinale. His feature debut 12:08 East of Bucharest was also nominated for the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards and won the Audience Award in the 2006 Transilvania International Film Festival.