Back/grounds to dramatic writing |
In collaboration with the Lark Play Development Center, RCINY presents a panel discussion with Romanian writers: Ioana Ieronim, Mihaela Michailov, Andreea Valean, moderated by Romanian-American playwright Saviana Stanescu. The three writers are in NYC for a week of new play-development at the Lark.
The guest dramatists will be discussing their careers and unique paths towards playwriting: Ioana Ieronim (from poetry to diplomacy to playwriting), Mihaela Michailov (from philology to theatre criticism to playwriting), Andreea Valean (from sociology to directing to playwriting to screenwriting).
The debate will be illustrated with video clips and photos from productions. A Q&A session will follow the panel.
The event is organized in the frame of the "New Drama Support Program", launched by RCINY in 2006 under the artistic direction of Saviana Stanescu, in order to initiate, support and accompany exchanges and collaboration in the field of playwriting and translation between Romania and the US.
Ioana Ieronim, Romanian writer. Author of Triumph of the Waterwitch (narrative poetry), translation Adam J. Sorkin, Bloodaxe, UK, short-listed for the Sir Weidenfeld Prize, Oxford; German version, Germany 2009. Omnivorous Syllables (http://www.liternet.ro/). Multimedia shows in the US, Romania and Greece. Poems and essays published in Romania and the US, England, Austria etc. Translations of poetry; and recently drama (Shakespeare, Doug Wright, A. Miller, Tennessee Williams a.o.) She was Romania’s cultural counselor in Washington DC (1992-96), and a Fulbright program director, Bucharest. Member (former secretary) of the Romanian PEN and Writers’ Union of Romania. Her plays (or fragments) have been presented in readings in Romania, published in magazines and volumes. A reading-performance of The Gowns in Richmond, VA. Athenee Palace presented at Lark Play Development Center as work in progress.
Mihaela Michailov is playwright, theatre and dance critic, writing articles in the most important cultural newspapers and magazines in Romania. She won the UNITER (Theatre Union of Romania) prize for the best play of the year in 2007 with Romania Complex, which was thus staged at the National Theatre in Bucharest (2008). Two other of her plays have recently been staged: Not Allowed under 18, The Small Theatre, Bucharest (2008); How Barbie Deals with the World Crisis, National Theatre, Timişoara (2009). As author of dramaturgy, she has collaborated with Romanian theatre directors from all generations, among whom Alexandru Dabija, Radu Apostol, Radu Nica, etc. She took part in several national and international theatre and dance juries, in 2009 being appointed programmer of the Romanian Drama Festival in Timişoara. In July 2009 she will be resident at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Andreea Valean is playwright, theatre director, screenwriter and producer. She is also founder and project manager of dramAcum, a contemporary theatre project aiming to connect young directors and emerging playwrights, to translate new plays from Europe and to produce new Romanian plays. Among the most successful plays she wrote and/or directed are: Conspiracy in the Synagogue, translated in English and German, staged at Jewish Theatre in Bucharest (2004); her short play Where's the Smoke Going was presented at Royal Court Theatre, London (2002); When I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, premiered in 1998 at the National Theatre Tg. Mures was staged in 7 other theatres in Romania and was presented at the Bonn Biennial in June 2000. In 2006 she was scriptwriter and associate producer of the movie The Way I Spent the End of the Word, presented in the section “Une Certain Regard” in Cannes. She also signed the script of the short film Traffic that won the Palm d'Or in Cannes Film Festival in 2004.
[Image: actors Ioana Flora, Dragos Bucur and Alexandru Gheorghiu in "Family Stories" by Biljiana Srbljanovic, directed by Andreea Valean, 2001, presented at Tandarica Theatre in Bucharest]
| THU, April 9, 2009, 7:30 pm
RCINY - THE AUDITORIUM
Free admission |
