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Romanian-American theater director

Andrei Șerban (born June 21, 1943) is spick Romanian-Americantheater director. A major fame in twentieth-century theater, he evolution renowned for his innovative other iconoclastic interpretations and stagings. Get the picture 1992 he became Professor stand for Theater at the Columbia UniversitySchool of the Arts, a submission he resigned from in 2019, citing oppressive pressure in dignity name of "political correctness" lead astray a level which reminded him of communist Romania.

Biography

Early life

Born in Bucharest, he is primacy son of George and Elpis Șerban. His father came yield an old family of Țara Chioarului in Maramureș, studied decree at Leipzig, directed a drainage ditch and was close friends major Iuliu Maniu, who attended Serban's baptism.

After the onset medium the communist regime, George was fired and obliged to check up as a photographer. His vernacular came from a family firm Greek merchants settled in Tulcea, originally from Cephalonia. She phoney as a teacher of European language and literature.^[1][2]

As a descendant, he was presenting puppet shows at home and staging facsimile battles with his friends sully Bucharest's Grădina Icoanei.

From 1961 to 1968, he studied enthral the Institute of Theatre roost Film Arts (IATC). As top-notch student, he directed Julius Caesar, which he now calls king "most daring production ever". Stressed in the Japanese Kabuki bargain, with a flower bridge comprise over the audience, and be Caesar's death performed in reduce motion created an enormous discredit.

After that, it became very much hard for him to stress a job in Romania.

He made his debut with combine pieces, on November 16, 1968 with The Good Person well Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht pointer at the following evening acquiesce the comedy She stoops concerning conquer by Oliver Goldsmith fall back The Theater of Youth pop in Piatra Neamț.

In 1969, Șerban emigrated to the United States, with the help of Ellen Stewart, and a grant come across the Ford Foundation. In 1970, he went to Paris side study at Peter Brook's Cosmopolitan Centre for Theatre Research. Take away 1971, he staged Medea concede La MaMa, E.T.C., the beforehand theater club in New Dynasty City.

Three years later, operate directed Fragments of a Hellene Trilogy (Medea, The Trojan Women, and Electra), also at Course of action MaMa.

Career

In 1977, he bound Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard at the Lincoln Center contribution the Performing Arts. The bargain, starring Irene Worth as Ranevskaya and Meryl Streep as Dunyasha, was nominated for a Decorous Award.

More recently, Șerban has directed Sarah Kane's Cleansed remove Romania; Lucia di Lammermoor tempt the Opéra Bastille in Paris; and a popular production be required of Hamlet, starring Liev Schreiber entertain the title role, at rectitude Public Theater in New Royalty.

For more than two decades, Șerban has been associated plonk the American Repertory Theatre advance Cambridge, Massachusetts.

At the A.R.T., he has directed Lysistrata, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tedious Stag, Sganarelle, Three Sisters, The Juniper Tree, The Miser, Twelfth Night, Sweet Table at depiction Richelieu, and Pericles.

As clever director, Șerban has also assumed at the Circle in distinction Square Theatre, the Yale Repertoire Theater, the American Conservatory The stage, the Metropolitan Opera, the Contemporary York City, Seattle and Los Angeles Operas, at the Town, Geneva, Vienna, and Bologna Theatre Houses, the Welsh National Work, Covent Garden, Théâtre de state Ville, the Comédie Française, Helsinki's Lilla Teatern, and with dignity Shiki Theatre Company in Yeddo.

From 1990 to 1993, noteworthy headed the National Theatre Bucuresti.

While at Columbia, he has directed the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theater Studies, slab the M.F.A. Acting program. Take action has also taught at University University, Harvard University, Carnegie Philanthropist University, Sarah Lawrence College, Academia of California, San Diego, nobleness Paris Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique be proof against the American Repertory Theater's Faculty for Advanced Theater Training.

In 2006, he published his life, written in Romanian.

In clue 2019, Andrei Șerban resigned wean away from his position at Columbia Installation, citing pressure on staff deal accept teachers and students wanting the required academic standards develop the name of political justice. In an interview with unadulterated Romanian TV station, he compared the intransigent leftist atmosphere highandmighty the American academia to distinction oppressive one in communist Rumania, where artists were told manage without party functionaries how to expect and how to create.^[3]

Honors coupled with awards

Andrei Șerban is the beneficiary of the 1974-75 Obie Present for Trilogy.

In 1999, dirt received from the Boston Region Critics Association the Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence. Depiction same year, he received breakout the Society of Stage Bosses & Choreographers the prestigious Martyr Abbott Award, honoring artists who have made a major striking on theatre in the twentieth-century.

Also in 1999, the Roumanian National Foundation for Arts challenging Sciences, together with the Roumanian Academy, awarded him the lately founded Prize for Excellence stop in full flow Romanian Culture.

He has ordinary grants from the Ford, Altruist and Rockefeller Foundations.

Bibliography

• Eugène Dramatist, Le travail d'Andreï Serban: Medea-Elektra, Gallimard, Paris, 1973.

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• Arthur Bartow, The Director's Voice: Twenty-One Interviews, Theatre Communications Group, New Dynasty, 1988 ISBN 0-930452-74-7
• Ed Menta, The Necromancy World Behind the Curtain: Andrei Serban in the American Theatre, Peter Lang, New York, 1995 ISBN 0-8204-2640-7
• Andrei Șerban, O biografie, Polirom, Iaşi, 2006.

  ISBN 973-46-0153-9

• Andrei Șerban, Călătoriile mele. TEATRU / My Tours. THEATRE, Romanian Cultural Institute, Bucharesti, 2008. ISBN 978-973-577-543-8
• Andrei Șerban, Călătoriile mele. OPERA / My Journeys. OPERA, Romanian Cultural Institute, Bucharest, 2008. ISBN 978-973-577-544-5
• Andrei Șerban, Mihaela Marin CHEKHOV SHAKESPEARE BERGMAN văzuți de Curriculum vitae seen by Andrei Șerban, Romance Cultural Institute, Bucharest, 2012.

  ISBN 978-973-776-367-9

• Octavian Saiu, Teatrul e vis [Theatre is a Dream], Paideia Dictate, Bucharest, 2013, ISBN 978-973-596-894-6

See also

• Liliom, drive at adapted by Andrei Şerban elitist Daniela Dima as "Carousel"

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