Mrs. Botez has designed for major theater and dance companies, including The National Theatre of Bucharest, and has participated with international theater festivals such as the Prague Quadrennial Exhibition.

Born in 1931, film director and screenwriter Elisabeta Bostan is best known for movies “with” and “for children”. A graduate of Bucharest's Institute of Theater and Film Art in 1955, Bostan did not make her first feature film until 1961.

Bucharest correspondent of Le Monde newspaper and France 24 television, Mr. Bran also collaborates with Le Point weekly, and the France Inter.

Matei Branea, a multi-hyphenated artist (animator-comics artist-illustrator-graphic designer-publisher) is a household name in Romania. For two seasons, he appeared weekly on Romanian National Television in the Planeta Moldova Show, a highly-popular comedic animation program.

Laura Buruiana has performed in the USA (e.g. Kennedy Center, "Kaufmann Hall" New York, Gardner Museum Boston, in France, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain and in almost all the important halls in Romania.

Born in 1960 in Bucharest, Nae Caranfil graduated the Theatre and Film Academy in 1984. He shot a number of short features that enjoyed several awards in international festivals.

Matei Calinescu was a Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and West European Studies at Indiana University, where he taught since arriving in the United States, in 1973, until his retirement. He lived in Bloomington, Indiana, but visited Romania on a regular basis after 1994.

Ms. Cărbunariu graduated from the Theatre Department of the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest in 2004 as a director, received a master’s degree in playwriting in 2006, and is currently working on her doctorate.

Mircea Cartarescu (b. 1956 in Bucharest) is considered by many to be the most important Romanian author writing today. In Romania he has a popular following across older and younger generations, and although he is widely read in translation in Europe, only one of his novels has appeared in English to date – Nostalgia (originally published in Romanian in 1989).

Regarded as one of Romania's most prominent literary figures, Cassian has created a large and varied body of work, the main concern of which is passion: passion as desire and passion as suffering. Cassian's poems are marked especially by their physicality; they are intensely personal, rhythmically complex, and dynamic works that move easily from love to hate, from tenderness to severity.