Useless, by Saviana Stanescu

05/21/2024

Breaking News: Zebra 2.0 is traveling to Poland and Romania! Romanian friends, come see the show at Alexandru Davila Theatre in Pitești on May 28 or at Teatrelli in Bucharest on June 1. Bonus: on May 28 at 3 pm, I will present the autobiographical lecture: Pitești - București - New York. Playwriting without Borders.

În Zebra 2.0, Saviana Stănescu descrie relația dintre un sistem de Inteligență Artificială (AI) de la o firmă din SUA, specializată în protecția mediului și monitorizarea zebrelor din Africa, și femeia de serviciu care face curat noaptea în biroul computerului AI. Cei doi interacționea...

02/26/2024

If you are in Ithaca, NY, go see "Sanctuary City" by Martyna Majok at the Kitchen Theatre Company. A bonus this Wednesday at 6.30 pm: I'm going to talk about Martyna's plays, the immigrant experience, and (a few other) immigrant playwrights' work.
https://www.kitchentheatre.org/sanctuarycity

01/03/2024

New York friends and Under the Radar / APAP participants, check out our big little transmedia show "LifeLines: Blavatsky Freud Experience". Co-created by yours truly (my Performance Studies self :) with multidisciplinary artists/academics Jon McKenzie, Bryan Reynolds, and Leeny Sack. January 12 and 13 uptown, at the Glicker-Milstein Theatre at Barnard College, Diana Center.

multimedia dance theater/performance art

12/16/2023

It was a pleasure to give a guest artist talk on the topic of "Theatre and Artificial Intelligence" for the American Studies graduate program at the University of Bucharest. A wonderful group of smart and knowledgeable students asked insightful questions about my work, particularly my "AI plays" Zebra 2.0 and What Happens Next. The 90 minutes passed so fast as we also debated larger issues about the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the contemporary society, human-machine interactions, ethical aspects of AI development, theatre as a tool for exploring such expansive issues, interdisciplinarity in higher education, scientists&artists collaborations, etc. A truly inspiring conversation - thank you, Diana Benea, for the invitation.

12/08/2023

Grateful for the chance to speak my mind and my soul in a few recent interviews with insightful partners of conversation... 🥰

Saviana Stanescu’s fictional dark comedy about immigration, street clowns and the American Dream premiered off-Broadway in 2008. To celebrate the play’s 15th anniversary, we sat down with the playwright to discuss her work and its enduring relevance.

12/05/2023

" It’s time for us—artists, playwrights, theatre makers—to have a say in this AI debate as well. It’s a rich topic to explore and an important conversation to have. We must participate in the process of shaping the future of human-AI relations."

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12/02/2023

TODAY (Saturday) at 7 pm at the Hangar Theatre. Two stories, two millennia apart, by the Black Sea. As told by the BLACK SEA and 3 mischevious muses ;) Free Admission.

03/29/2023

A pleasure to be interviewed by Lucía Cárdenas on her cool and insightful YouTube channel "What If I Say Yes".
I had to look back at my life and think about my 'yes'-es an 'no'-s.
Now you can all be my 'therapists' - did I make the right choice?
Kudos to Lucía for getting us to have these meaningful conversations and discoveries.

Saviana Stănescu, poet, ARTivist, screenwriter, curator, journalist, professor, and consultant, shares her story of having said YES to moving to the United S...