Ithaca College

The Center for Faculty Excellence is pleased to host Ithaca College Community Artists each Friday at 5pm. In a mere 15-20minutes, learn what our community brings to the Arts, and the invariable ways Art invigorates our lives.

This month, we focus on "Solitary Refinement". Guest artists include:

June 26: Saviana Stanescu Condeescu (Bio below)

The Zoom link to attend any of these events is received by emailing: cschillinger@ithaca.edu

Saviana Stanescu is a Romanian award-winning playwright and ARTivist based in Ithaca. Her US plays (written in English) include Aliens with extraordinary skills, Ants (both published by Samuel French), Useless, Toys, For A Barbarian Woman, Lenin’s Shoe, Waxing West (2007 NY Innovative Theatre Award), What Happens Next, Bee Trapped Inside the Window. Honors include: Fulbright, Indie Theater Hall of Fame, NYSCA playwright-in-residence, Golden Award for Playwriting, KulturKontakt artist-in-residence, Marulic Prize for Best European Radio Drama, Best Romanian Play of the Year UNITER Award. Saviana's plays have been developed/produced at Women’s Project, La MaMa, 59E59, New York Theatre Workshop, EST, HERE, New Georges, Lark, Cherry, Civic Ensemble, Teatro La Capilla, Teatrul Odeon, etc. She holds an MA in Performance Studies and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU, and currently works as an Associate Professor of Playwriting & Contemporary Theatre at Ithaca College. Saviana founded ‘Immigrant Artists and Scholars in New York ‘(IASNY) and its annual ‘NY with an Accent’ / ‘Liberty’s Daughters’ showcase at the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York. (www.saviana.com)