Mihai Măniuţiu

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Mihai Maniutiu (b. 1954) is a European theatre director, writer and theoretician of Romanian origin. He directed over seventy-productions in important theatres, many of which have been toured internationally, broadcast on European TV chanels, and won numerous awards in the categories on Best Director, Best Production, and Originality. Maniutiu is Professor of the Faculty of Theatre of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj, and Programmes Director of the National Theatre in Cluj.

Three theatre albums have been dedicated to his theatre & dance work, and analyze the major features of his original style and performance philosophy:

1. The Trilogy of the Double: Three Romanian Productions by Mihai Maniutiu (Bucharest: Unitext, 1997), ed. Cipriana Petre. Trans. Cipriana Petre & Brenda Walker. Photographs: Sean Hudson. Collective volume conceived and co-ordinated by Cipriana Petre. Co-authors: Michael Billington, Georges Banu, Michael Coveney, Marina Constantinescu, Mircea Ghitulescu, Dan Haulica, Nicolae Manolescu, Dan C. Mihailescu, Eugen Negrici, Cipriana Petre, Marian Popescu, Miruna Runcan, Victor Scoradet, Antoaneta Tanasescu, Ion Vartic, Irving Wardle. 80 pages with color and black&white photos.

2. Cipriana Petre-Mateescu, Maniutiu: Theatre Images. Images de Theatre. Imagini de teatru. Cluj: Idea Design & Print, 2002. 136 pp. with black&white photos. Trilingual edition (English, French, Romanian).

3. Dan C. Mihailescu, Dancing on Ruins. Cluj: Idea Design & Print, 2006. 84 pages with black & white photos. Trilingual edition (English, French, Romanian).

Maniutiu holds a PhD in Theatre Theory from the Theatre University in Bucharest (2006). In 1998, he co-founded, with fellow-artists Marcel Iures and Alexandru Dabija, Romania's first independent theatre, The Act Theatre in Bucharest.

As a writer, he has published eleven books of short stories, one book on Shakespeare, The Golden Round (Bucharest: Meridiane Press, 1989; second edition Bucharest: Camil Petrescu Foundation Press, 2003), and three books of theatre theory: On Mask and Illusion (Despre Masca si iluzie, Bucharest: Humanitas, 2007); Act and Mimetic Representation (Bucharest: Eminescu, 1989; Hungarian edition Aktus es utanzas, Cluj: Koinonia, 2006); and Rediscovering the Actor (Bucharest: Meridiane, 1985).

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