Manana Antadze (Georgian: მანანა ანთაძე, born August 28, 1945) is a Georgian writer and translator, and founder of the Tumanishvili Theatre Foundation.
Life and career
In 1967 Manana Antadze graduated from Tbilisi State University (TSU), Western European Languages and Literature.
From 1981 to 1989, Antadze was a research associate at the Centre for Contemporary Literary Studies at the Georgian State University. She has been a freelance translator since 1974, and her numerous translations include William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Irving Stone's Lust for Life, and J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
In 2006, Antadze presented the annual awards given for "New Writing" in "New Georgian play" and "The Best Translation". In July 2009. she attended the 31st Cambridge Seminar on Contemporary Literature, then, in August she attended Globe Education Cultural Seminar on "Shakespeare & His Stage".
Antadze's biography is included in Who is Who in Georgia (2009).
1971–present, Freelance translator
1981-1989, Center for Contemporary Western Literary Studies, TSU (research associate)
1981–present, Tumanishvili Film Actors’ Theatre (Literary manager)
1998–present, Tumanishvili Theatre Foundation (Founder and President)
2006–present, Legal Leader of International Drama Competition ‘NEW WRITING IN GEORGIA’
2012–present, Sturua Productions/Founder with Robert Sturua and Gia Tevzadze
Education and training
1962-1967, MA/BA Tbilisi State University (TSU), Western European Languages and Literature
2009, 31st Cambridge Seminar "Contemporary Literature" (alumna)
2009, Globe Education Cultural Seminar "Shakespaere and his Stage" (alumna)
Inner Wheel (Rotary) Club
Eurodram
Georgian Writers’ Union
Georgian Theatre Craftsmen’ Union
1989, "Edward Albee: Existential Intuition" in Modern Western Drama, with I. Gogoberidze and L. Kereselidze
1978 – Eugene O’Neill, Desire Under The Elms, director Temur Chkheidze
1980 – William Gibson, The Cry Of Players, director Andro Enukidze
1981 – Moliere, Dom Juan, director Mikheil Tumanishvili
1982 – Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself, director Nana Demetrashvili
2004 – Dario Fo, The Open Couple, director Keti Dolidze
2005 – Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, director Gogi Margvelashvili
2006 – George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber, The Royal Family, director Keti Dolidze
2007 – Nikolai Gogol, Revisor (Inspector), director Otar Egadze
2007 – Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage, commissioned by David Doiashvili
2009 – William Shakespeare, Macbeth, director David Doiashvili
2010 – Edmond Rostand, Cyrano De Bergerac, director David Doiashvili
2010 – David Hastings, One Small Step, commissioned by British Council Georgia
2012 – Terrence McNally, Masterclass, director Robert Sturua
2014 – Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths, director David Doiashvili
2015 – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, commissioned by Robert Sturua
2015 – William Shakespeare, King Lear, director Zurab Getsadze
2015 – Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, director Keti Dolidze
1971 – Irving Stone, Lust For Life
1978 – H. G. Wells, Russia in the Shadows
1979 – Eugene O'Neill, Desire Under The Elms
2002 – J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, ISBN 99928-986-5-8
2009 – Tennessee Williams, Camino Real, ISBN 978-9941-9149-6-6
2012 – Terrence McNally, Masterclass, ISBN 978-9941-9236-92
2014 – Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, ISBN 978-9941-9352-3-7
2014 – Moliere, Dom Juan, ISBN 978-9941-9352-4-4
2014 – Edmond Rostand, Cyrano De Bergerac, ISBN 978-9941-9352-6-8
2014 – William Shakespeare, Macbeth, ISBN 978-9941-9352-5-1
Honors and awards
2002 – Honorary Citizen of Domrémy-la-Pucelle, France.
2015 – Ivane Machabeli Prise
