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New article name Miruna Runcan
Writer, theatre critic. She got a PhD in Theatre's Aesthetics at the Bucharest University of Theatre and Film in 1999 on a complex historical and aesthetical research on the Romanian modern stage-directing and theatre theories, from 1920 to 1960.
After 1989, she was involved in several activist and theatrical projects, both in the Media Ethics and Theatre criticism. She published the first Romanian book on media law and ethics, for young journalists (1997, Bucharest, All Publishing House), followed by The Fourth Power: Ethics and Law for Journalists (Cluj, 2002, Dacia Publishing House). After 2001, she is professor at “Babes Boyai" University of Cluj, Romania. Still, theatre criticism and interdisciplinary studies on media, film and theatre constitutes the principle field of her activities in research, writing and teaching.
She edited (with Alina Nelega as Editor in chef, C.C. Buricea-Mlinarcic and Anca Rotescu, the first Romanian interdisciplinary magazine dedicated to the alternative theatrical movement, ultimaT (Targu Mures, from 1999-2000). Then, as a part of an independent theatrical group in Cluj, Teatrul Imposibil, she became the editor in chief of Man.In.Fest: Performing Culture Magazine, who became in 2006 an independent publication (edited on its own ONG, ArtReSearch)
In 2004, she starts - together with Romanian playwright and theatre theoretician C.C. Buricea-Mlinarcic - a complex group project, reuniting filed research, anthropological analysis and theatre and film creation: the Everyday Life Drama Program. From 2009, the program became the Everyday Drama Laboratory of The Theatre Research and Creation Center "Vlad Mugur", awarded with a three year substantial research grant from the Ministry of Education and Research.
She is member of the Romanian Writers Union, UNITER (The Romanian Theatre Association) and of AICT/IATC (The International Association of Theatre Critics).
Author of The Romanian Theatre Model, Bucharest: Unitext Publisging House, 2001, The “Theatricalisation” of Romanian Theatre.1920-1960, Cluj: Eikon Publishing House, 2003, For a Semyothics of the Theatrical Performance, Cluj: Eikon Publishing House, 2005, The Sceptical’s Spectator’s Armchair, Bucharest: Unitext Publishing House, 2007.