TAMILLA WOODARD (director, US)
is a Director residing in New York City. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, an alumnus of The Lincoln Center Directors Lab and founder of PopUp Theatrics, a partnership creating site impacting theatrical events in collaboration with theatre artists working around the globe. With PopUP, her most recent work includes directing and curating Long Distance Affair, an international collaboration for live Skype performance. Also Co-Creator of the international collaborative site specific performance Hotel Project, that had its world premiere in Querétaro Mexico in July 2011 and its American premier at Washington Jefferson Hotel and the Summit Grand Hotel in January 2012;  Other recent work includes DramaTour in Querétaro Mexico with Sabandijas del Palacio,  Valiant by Lanna Joffrey at InterAct Theatre (Philadelphia, PA); Nightlands by Sylvan Oswald at for New Georges, (NYC) and the development and direction of Saviana Stanescu's Polanski Polanski  at Teatrul Odeon (Bucharest), The Sibiu International Theatre Festival (Sibiu), TIFF International Festival (Cluj), at PS122/SoloNOVA festival and HERE (NYC). She has directed at for the Working Theater, HERE, The Actors Theatre of Louisville, PS122, DR 2, The Culture Project, Urban Stages, Dance Theatre Workshop, The Kitchen Theatre and for festivals around the US and internationally. She received The  Charles Bowden Award from New Dramatists and The Josephine Abady Award from The League of Professional Theatre Women. She is currently a recipient of the New York Theatre Workshop Emerging Artists Fellowship.Tamilla serves as an adjunct professor teaching theatre at City College's Center for Worker Education and at Pace University where she facilitates an ‘International Performance Ensemble’.

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ANA MARGINEANU (director, RO/US)
 is a Theatre Director who works both nationally and internationally. She is founder of PopUp Theatrics, a partnership creating immersive theatrical events around the world and in collaboration with international theatre artists. She is a past resident of Women's Project Theater, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center and an alumnus of The Lincoln Center Directors Lab. She graduated from The National University of Theatre and Film of Bucharest, Romania.  Her work has been presented and developed at the Working Theater, Urban Stages, NYTW, The Lark, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Secret Theatre, The Public Theatre and in numerous theaters and festivals in Europe, most notably: New Plays from Europe Wiesbaden, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, National Theatre Festival Bucharest, Sibiu International Theatre Festival. She has also directed, taught and facilitated workshops at Colleges and Universities like: Pace University, Queens College, National Theatre and Film University of Bucharest. .

Recent work includes:  The Female Role Model Project at 3-Legged-Dog Art and Technology Center NYC; The Vanished Year Trilogy at Mic Theatre Bucharest and The Museum of Lies, an immersive party game for 24 audience members, created by PopUP Theatrics.
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Called "one of the reigning queens of New York's highly intimate, one-shot-only, conceptual-based theater" by the NYC critic Randy Gener, Ana Margineanu is known for close cooperation with the local communities who are audiences for her work, highly metaphoric visual style, and ability to draw raw, visceral performances from her actors. 

PECA STEFAN (playwright, RO)
is considered one of the most powerful voices in Romanian contemporary playwriting. He studied dramatic writing at New York University (2003-2004), was a resident of the Royal Court International Residency (2005) and CEC ArtsLink Playwright in Residence at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven (2007, 2008). He was the winner of the first dramAcum contest in Romania, in 2002. His work has been presented in Romania, the United States, the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia, Holland, Russia, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Bulgaria, Belarus and Serbia. His plays have won several awards, including the Heidelberg Stuckemarkt Innovation Award (2007) for Romania 21 and London Fringe Report Award for Best Play – Relationship Drama (2006) for The Sunshine Play. He was also one of the 5 European Plawyrights selected in the Berliner Theatertreffen Stuckemarkt 2010, with Wire and Acrobats. Peca is the winner of the Irish Embassy Award for Best Romanian Play – 2010 for 5 miraculous minutes in Piatra Neamt, and Best Play at the Romanian Playwriting Festival in Timisoara (2011) for Rosia Montana. In 2012, the production of his play Targoviste de Jucarie (Playground Targoviste) was selected at the most prestigious festival of new playwriting in Europe, New Plays from Europe in Wiesbaden.  

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All photos by: Cinty Ionescu