Aura Corbeanu is presumably the most important Romanian theatre producer of today. She has managed UNITER - The Theatre Union of Romania (a Romanian equivalent of TCG - the Theatre Communication Group, systemic differences considered) since 1995 and has produced numerous festivals and events, both in Romania and internationally.

Before her participation to the TCG national conference, join Aura Corbeanu at RCINY to learn about a producer's view on the Romanian theatre system and context, the important differences between Romania and US and how they can be bridged in developing mutual exchanges. In dialogue with Aura Corbeanu will be special RCINY's guests, Catherine Coray (Director of hotINK International Play Reading Festival & Associate Arts Professor, Experimental Theatre Wing Department of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts), John Clinton Eisner (Producing Director, Lark Play Development Center), and Melissa Hardy (Company Manager, The Play Company).

UNITER was founded immediately after the Revolution, in February 1990, and has had a continuous activity ever since, representing not only a member-based guild of theatre professionals, but also a financial supporter and producer of theatre events, including the International Romanian Theatre Festival in Bucharest, and the organizer of the most prestigious theatre awards in Romania.

Her participation to the TCG conference aims to enhance the numerous and growing exchanges between Romania and the US engendered in the past years, and is organized in collaboration with the Lark Play Development Center.


Aura Corbeanu is currently executive vice-president of UNITER. She also participates to a variety of professional bodies active in the cultural field in Romania and in numerous European cultural networks, among which PEJA - Pepinieres Europeennes pour les Jeunes Artists (as vice-president) or ORACLE (Network of European Cultural Managers). She holds an MA in cultural management from the Dijon Business School, France and a Ph.D. in theatrology (with the published dissertation "Theatre and Society"), at the National University of Drama and Cinematography, Bucharest. She is professor cultural management in various universities and programs developed in Romania and has published several books on the subject.