Ms. Stănescu is one of the most prominent playwrights to have emerged in Romania after the fall of communism in 1989. Her plays have been presented in the United States, Great Britain, France, Austria, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Switzerland, and, of course, Romania. She has published six books of poetry and drama including Google Me! (poetry), Black Milk (four plays), and The Inflatable Apocalypse (Romanian Play of the Year UNITER Award in 2000). Her New York productions include Waxing West and YokastaS (directed by Richard Schechner) at La MaMa Theatre, Suspendida at the Ontological Theatre, Balkan Blues at the NYC Fringe Festival, and the site-specific project I Want What You Have at the World Financial Center. Her short play Aurolac Blues, performed at HERE Arts Center, was published in the anthology Plays and Playwrights 2006. Two of her monologues have been published in the Playwrights’ Center’s Monologues for Women. Her play Final Countdown was translated and published in France. She was a New Generations TCG fellow with the LARK Play Development Center, where Waxing West and Lenin’s Shoe had barebones productions. The 2007 Waxing West at La MaMa Theatre in New York, directed by Benjamin Mosse, produced by East Coast Artists with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York.  Saviana Stanescu won the 2007 New York InnovativeTheatre Award for Outstanding Original Full-Length Script. Saviana Stanescu worked as a NYSCA playwright-in-residence with Women’s Project and writer-in-residence for East Coast Artists. She is also the artistic director of the New Drama Support Program of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York. She holds an MA in Performance Studies and an MFA in Dramatic Writing (John Golden Award for Excellence in Playwriting) from New York University, where she now teaches in the Drama Department.