Mona CHIRILĂ

Born on the 17th of August, 1961, in Cugir.

Stage director and university lecturer at the Theatre Department of the Faculty of Letteres of the “Babeş-Bolyai” University din Cluj, Mona Chirilă graduated from I.A.T.C. “I. L. Caragiale” of Bucureşti in 1987 (Class Cătălina Buzoianu). After graduation, she activated in important theatres of Romania.

She realized over 30 puppet performances, the majority of them being awarded prizes such as The Great Prize for the Best Performance, or The Prize for the Best Stage Direction, as in the case of: Steaua lui Arlecchino [The Star of Arlecchino] by Mona Chirilă, Făt-Frumos din lacrimă [The Fair Prince from the Tear], after Mihai Eminescu, Dragostea celor trei portocale [The Love of the Three Oranges], after Carlo Gozzi, Fetiţa cu chibrituri [The Little Girl with the Matches], after Hans Christian Andersen.

Among the theatre performances realized, we mention: Regina Mamă by Manlio Santanelli, The Prize for the Best Stage Direction, at the Festival of Short Theatre, Oradea; a performance of Commedia dell’Arte at the National Theatre in Târgu-Mureş,

Memo, after texts selected from the Romanian literary Avantgarde, awarded the Special Prize of the Jury, at the Festivalul of Short Theatre in Oradea, Mantaua [The Mantle], after N.V. Gogol and Mihai Bulgakov, dramatic script by Mona Chirilă, Căsătoria [The Wedding Party], by N.V. Gogol, Nunta însângerată [The Blood-stained Wedding], by F.Garcia Lorca, Nopţi din cele o mie şi una [Nights Taken from the One Thousand and One] după O mie şi una de nopţi [One Thousand and One Nights], dramatic script Mona Chirilă, Ubucureşti after I.L. Caragiale and Alfred Jarry, dramatic script by Mona Chirilă, D’ale carnavalului by I.L. Caragiale, Slugă la doi stăpâni [Servant at Two masters], by Carlo Goldoni, Seagull by A.P. Cehov, The Little Square by Carlo Goldoni, The Imaginary Illman by Moliére, Travesties by Tom Stoppard.

In 1992, she participated in the work-shop supervised by Peter Brook and his main collaborators from the BOUFFES DU NORD Theatre in Paris (Jean Claude Carrieres, David Bennent, Yoshi Oiida, Nick Dear, Sotiguy, Marie-Helene Estienne etc.), organized within the WIENER FESTIVAL (the Festival of Vienna).

Her performances were presented on national and international tours in the USA and Italy.