Saviana Stanescu
playwright
* poet * ARTivist * screenwriter * curator * journalist * professor * consultant *
Photo by Jody Christopherson
Saviana Stanescu is a revolutionary playwright, poet, and ARTivist without borders, living in New York/Ithaca/Bucharest/etc. She cherishes her multi-rooted identity and multiplicity of belonging.
Winner of New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Play (Waxing West), Samuel French OOB Festival (White Embers), Marulic Prize for Radiodrama (Bucharest Underground), Best Romanian Play of the Year UNITER Award (Inflatable Apocalypse), Saviana's plays have been produced in New York and around the world.
Saviana's US plays include Aliens with extraordinary skills, Ants, White Embers (all published by Samuel French), For a Barbarian Woman, Useless (published by NoPassport Press), Hurt, Zebra 2.0, What Happens Next, Zoom Birthday Party, etc. They have been developed/produced at Women’s Project, La MaMa, 59E59, New York Theatre Workshop, EST, HERE, New Georges, Lark, Cherry, Odeon Theatre in Bucharest, Teatro La Capilla in Mexico City, etc.
Saviana's Romanian plays/productions include Kilometrul Zero (The Revolution Project), Final Countdown, Infanta - Users' Guide, Organic, Miss Dracula, Silicon Valley, etc.
Saviana holds an MA in Performance Studies and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University, as well as a PhD in Theatre from the National University of Theatre&Film in Bucharest (UNATC).
She currently works as an Associate Professor of Playwriting and Contemporary Theatre at Ithaca College.
Saviana is the Founder and Artistic Director of Immigrant/International Artists and Scholars in New York (IASNY).
Read full bio here.
You can buy Saviana's books on her Amazon author page: Saviana Stanescu
“I’ve always believed that the special energy people talk about as New York’s essence comes from all those newcomers’ hopes and dreams in the air. “Aliens” pays tribute to that energy and at the same time radiates tons of its own.”
— Anita Gaines
The NEW YORK TIMES
Learn more by visiting her Plays page here.
Read an interview with Saviana Stanescu in The Theatre Times:
Interview with Saviana Stănescu: “One could say that I am a 17-year-old American playwright”
— THE THEATRE TIMES