Diana Manole

Email: dianamanole@trentu.ca

Classes: CUST 2070Y, CUST 3070Y, CUST 4070Y

Diana Manole is a scholar, writer, and theatre director. She earned a PhD from the University of Toronto's Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, a Masters in Broadcast Journalism from Carleton University, an Hons. B.A. in Theatre Directing from the University of Theatre and Film,
Bucharest; and an Hons. B.A. in Russian and Romanian from the University of Bucharest. She has published academic articles in The Journal of Religion and Theatre (2006) and the collections of essays Performance, Exile And ‘America’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Overseas
Encounters (Baia Mare North University Press, forthcoming), International Women Stage Directors (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming), and Re-writing Chekhov: The Text and Its Mutations (in progress). She is currently working on several articles and a book on the expression of national identity in post-colonial and post-communist theatre.

She has also published 8 books (poems and plays), and contributed to several anthologies and magazines in Romanian, English, Polish, and German. Her work has been awarded 14 literary prizes, including Second Prize in the Romanian Dramatic Comedy Contest (2007) for The Textile
Revolution and the Romanian Writers Union’s National Award for Debut in Drama (1999) for The Child Who Didn't Want to Be Born. Her directing credentials include: Arabian Night by Roland Schimmelpfennig (CUST - Trent University 2011); Attempts on Her Life by Martin Crimp (CUST - Trent University 2010), Antigone by Sophocles; The Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt; Richard II and Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare; and Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov. She will direct the 2012 CUST theatre production.

Poems by Diana Manole