Saviana Stanescu

Saviana Stanescu is a Romanian-born award-winning playwright. Her work has been widely presented internationally and in the US. Recent productions include For a Barbarian Woman (a co-production Fordham/EST directed by Niegel Smith), Aliens With Extraordinary Skills at Women’s Project (published by Samuel French), Bechnya at Hudson Theatre in LA, Waxing West (2007 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Full-length Script) at La MaMa Theatre, Suspendida and Vicious Dogs on Premises (with Witness Relocation) at Ontological Theatre, Polanski Polanski and Aurolac Blues at HERE Arts Center, The E-Dating Project at Strasberg Institute for Theatre&Film, and the site-specific I want what you have at the World Financial Center. Aliens With Extraordinary Skills (Inmigrantes con Habilidades Extraordinarias) and Final Countdown (Cuenta Regresiva) ran for 8 months in Mexico City at Teatro La Capilla and Teatro El Milagro. Bucharest Underground won the 2007 Marulic Prize for Best European Radio-Drama. In Stockholm, Sweden, Ms. Stanescu’s play White Embers, produced by Dramalabbet, made it in the TOP 3 of Best Plays in 2008, and in NYC is published by Samuel French as one of their 2010 OOB Festival winners.