A DIALOGUE ABOUT ROMANIAN THEATRE AND DIRECTING FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
A DIALOGUE ABOUT ROMANIAN THEATRE AND DIRECTING FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: Dana Rufolo is the executive director of the Theatre Research Institute of Europe (TRIE, asbl), Luxembourg. She is the editor in chief of the well-known theatre magazine Plays International & Europe since January 2016; it is owned by TRIE and operates out of Constance, Germany. She graduated from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) with a B.A. in English and American Literature. Her Masters (on Adolphe Appia) and Doctorate (on Edward Albee) are from the University of Wisconsin at Madison; she also specialized in Art Therapy and in Drama Therapy. She ran a professional practice as an art therapist in Luxembourg in English and French for several years. In that context, she presented and published on several lectures and workshops, including a drama workshop in Georgia for Azerbaijani, Georgians, and Albanians involved in peace and reconciliation that incorporated concepts of psychodrama in it, and gave training in her methodology at the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution in Stadtschlaining, Austria. Her most notable publication to date in the field of Art Therapy advances her theory of Aesthetic Empathy (“Aesthetic Empathy and Salutogenesis through Beauty” in Gestalten-Gesunden, Zur Salutogenese in den Künstlerischen Therapien, ed. Heinfried Duncker & Ruth Hampe & Monika Wigger (Munich: Verlag Karl Alber, 2018)

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