Lila Passima is Researcher and Head of Museum Education Section 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.

Mr. Pautza (b. 1943) received his MFA in Music from the Bucharest Academy of Music in 1965 and studied composition at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, Italy with Franco Donatoni.

Ioana Paun, born 1984, is a theatre director and performance artist based in Bucharest, member of the réaltympanica site-specific collective and Romanian based tangaProject theatre group.

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.

Pianist Iris Perry, holder of a Doctorate of Music from Indiana University, a Master of Music from Yale University and a Bachelor of Music from Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University has been recently appointed as the new Vice President of the George Enescu Society of America.

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.