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SAVIANA STANESCU |
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Nationality: Romanian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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SAVIANA STANESCU was born and brought up in Romania, where many of her plays have been performed. She teaches at New York University
Plays by Saviana Stanescu
Aliens with Extraordinary Skills | ||
| 1st Produced: | Julia Miles (WPP) Theatre, NY | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Women's Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-67035-0 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89390 | |||
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Genre: | dark comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 either | |||||
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| A dark comedy about a clown from the 'unhappiest country in the world', Moldova, who pins her hopes on a US work visa. Chased by Homeland Security, a deportation letter deflates Nadia's enthusiasm and a pair of spike heels might be all it takes to burst her American Dream (or turn it into a nightmare. . .). New York City, with its special energy, seems like the perfect solution for her problems, but is it really? Luckily, Nadia is not alone in her journey: A Russian illegal immigrant, Borat, her fellow clown, tries to find his own path in the Big Apple, by working as a cab driver. Lupita, her Latina roommate, an exotic dancer and wanna-be actress, shows Nadia the tough side of the city. Meanwhile, Bob, an American washed-up musician finds himself in the relationship with the Moldovan girl. Aliens with Extraordinary Skills is based on true stories of immigration explored and fictionalized by a playwright who tries to understand her own story. The moral of the 'fable' might be that - regardless our passport and native language - we are all 'aliens' in search for love, understanding and a place to call 'home'. | |||||
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Aurolac Blues | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Plays and Playwrights 2006, The New York Theatre Experience, Inc >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 09670234-7-5 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47180 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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| Two Romanian street kids dream of an idealized life in America. | |||||
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Dream Acts | ||
| 1st Produced: | HERE Arts Center - Dorothy B. Williams Theater | 23 Mar 2012 | ||||
Company: | Dream Act Union | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138055 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | written by Author: Mia Chung, Jessica Litwak, Chiori Miyagawa, Saviana Stanescu, Andrea Thome | |||||
Synopsis: | Imagine that you dont have a country. It doesnt matter if you believe youre American, because no one else believes younot potential employers, not banks that issue student loans, not the government. There is no way to become legally American. You dont exist. Worse, you are hunted for deportation. You love this country, but the country does not love you back. In Dream Acts, five undocumented teens from Nigeria, Mexico, Ukraine, Korea, and Jordan face the extraordinary challenge of living ordinary lives under the radar. Each story is moving and urgent; some are funny, others are tragic, and through their experiences, we learn about facts about the DREAM Act and the secret lives lead by undocumented youth. | |||||
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East Coast Artists in Waxing West | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71858 | |||
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Final Countdown | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | World Theatre Presents and the Lark Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56751 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama, 60 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A Balkanesque comic tragedy about balloons, children and deviant parents. Zozo, a homeless Romanian, confronts her weird past as the daughter of a professional mourner and an artist gravedigger as she copes with rape and murder in the present. | |||||
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For a Barbarian Woman | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pope Auditorium, 113 West 60th Street, NY | 06 Oct 2011 | ||||
Company: | Fordam University Theatre Company and The Ensemble Studio Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133219 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | On the edge of the Black Sea, the greatest poet of the Roman Empire, Ovid, and an American/NATO colonel are forever transformed by a barbarian woman. Two millennia apart, boundaries of politics, time and desire continue to be shattered. Who will survive? | |||||
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I Want What You Have | ||
| 1st Produced: | World Financial Center, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Women's Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66929 | |||
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Genre: | short site specific work | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Women's Project presents Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$: six new works about women and wealthPerformances take place throughout the complex and the audience will move from space to space. Women's Project, taking its theme from a venue that has "world financial" in its name, presents six new, short, site-specific works about the relationships between women and wealth (or lack thereof) in Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$. | |||||
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Inflatable Apocalypse, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2000 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #72401 | |||
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Jelly- Love and Peanut- Butter | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #72402 | |||
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Lenin's Shoe | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lark Studio, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47181 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | explores the effect of relocation, particularly on young immigrants who want to rid themselves of their pasts. | |||||
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Myth America | ||
| 1st Produced: | TBG Theatre, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Personal Space Theatrics | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #77401 | |||
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Notes: | written by Arthur Kopit, Theresa Rebeck, Israel Horovitz, Rachel Axler, Ian Cohen, Brian Dykstra, Jason Grote, Julien Schwab, Matthew Paul Olmos, Saviana Stanescu, and Lloyd Suh. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Polanski Polanski | ||
| 1st Produced: | HERE Arts Center - Dorothy B. Williams Theater | 22 Sep 2010 | ||||
Company: | Nomad Theatrical Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119386 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | In 1977 the legendary filmmaker Roman Polanski was arrested on molestation charges, pled guilty to one of seven counts related to his actions with a 13-year-old girl in Los Angeles. He was remanded to Chino prison for a 90-day psychological evaluation and released after 42 days. After determining that he could not trust the judge in his case, Polanski fled the U.S. in 1978. He was once again arrested 31 years later in Switzerland. After spending two months in jail he was allowed to wait out extradition proceedings under house arrest in his Swiss Chalet. The Nature of being a Nomad is to be in quest of something and Nomad Theatrical Co.'s quest in the creation of Polanski Polanski is to coax the psycho-emotional workings of a complex mind from the level of the unconscious to the active level of the conscious (through our fictional account of three key threshold moments in Polanski's life), just as this filmmaker often does successfully in his own work. This play is in no way a docudrama, and is not particularly interested in the judgment of right and wrong, except insofar as how the individual himself allows himself to commit, wrestles with, and judges his own actions. | |||||
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Vicious Dogs on Premises | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Witness Relocation | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84821 | |||
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Genre: | play/physical theater piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Witness Relocation artistic director Dan Safer uses the metaphor of trained dogs and concepts of Choice Theory to investigate people's weird shifts between cruelty and love in his newest play/physical theater piece, Vicious Dogs on Premises. Witness Relocation's work normally blurs and ignores the lines between dance and theater, and includes aspects of installation art, live video, task-based performance, timed activities, competitions and improvisation of all sorts (movement, dramatic, and philosophical). This work also includes a literary component: a play commissioned by Witness Relocation from Romanian-American playwright Saviana Stanescu | |||||
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Waxing West | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | East Coast Artists | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63905 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | In Waxing West, Romanian cosmetologist Daniela Popescu arrives in the United States as the soon-to-be bride of the sexually repressed computer engineer, Charlie Aronson. As Daniela seeks to adjust to her new life with Charlie in the land of dreams, Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu-formerly dictator-and-wife of Romania, but now vampires-haunt her, making her life miserable. This comic yet socially and politically relevant drama journeys between Romania and New York, between past and present, between the American Dream and the American nightmare. Will Daniela be able to escape the ghosts of her past to move on? | |||||
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White Embers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lion Theatre, Theatre Row | 18 Jul 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 35th Series, Samuel French, Inc. (January 19, 2011) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69930-6 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124805 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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| From the initial pool of over 850 submissions, the Final Forty plays were chosen to be performed over a period of one week. A panel of judges comprised of celebrity playwrights, theatrical agents and artistic directors nominated one or more of each evening's plays as finalists. The final round was then held on the last day of the festival. Out of these plays, six winners were chosen by Samuel French, Inc. to receive publication and licensing contracts. | |||||
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