ELENA MORAR
DIRECTOR
Collaborator
Personal data
Elena Morar was born in 1986 and graduated as head of class from the Department of Theatre Directing at UNATC (class of Prof. Tudor Mărăscu). In 2010 she obtained a Master's degree in The Art of Theatre Directing. Between 2011-2013 he attended the doctoral school of Interdisciplinary Theatre-Film Studies (prof. coordinator Alexa Visarion). Elena Morar works both in the independent theatre environment in Bucharest and in projects developed by state theatres. Among her most recent shows are BILDUNGSWOMAN (Caleido Festival and Recul Theatre, 2021), 98% (the right decision) by Andreea Tănase - selected in FNT 2021 (Piatra Neamț Youth Theatre) Venus in Fur by David Ives (2019, unteatru București), School feat. Cool by George Cocoș (Teatrul Tineretului Piatra Neamț), My Father the Priest by Gabriel Sandu- selected in FNT 2018 (Teatrul Apollo111), Bull by Mike Bartlett (Arcub, with the support of POINT), as well as numerous reading performances - Teatrul Odeon, Teatrul Nottara. Interested in contemporary Romanian drama (resident Drama 5, Reactor Cluj 2020) but also in interweaving current topics with storytelling and musical expression on stage. At the same time, she is developing a career in musical theatre (opera and musicals) as stage director/technician and assistant director. She has collaborated intensively over the last almost ten years with the ONB (2012- 2017), the Opera Comique pour Enfants (2018-2020) and more recently the Opéra de Lyon (2017-present), the Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival (2021/2022), the Opéra de Lorraine (2021). Elena is interested in bringing together her two major areas of interest - a dramaturgy connected to society here and now, together with the suggestive and transformative power of contemporary classical music through the filter of performativity. In Constanta he staged the play "10 Things I Forgot at the Mamaia Festival", whose text belongs to Gabriel Sandu.