Name Oana Botez | Role Theatre designer | |
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Oana Botez is a Romanian-American theatre, opera, dance and film designer, artist and activist. Botez currently resides in New York City and Bucharest.
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Early life
Botez was born in Craiova, Romania to mother Rodica (Gardareanu) Botez, and father, Demostene Botez and raised in Bucharest. Her younger sister, Raluca, is an actress in Bucharest. Since 1995 she has been designing for stage and film, and has been creating guerrilla performances that draw attention to the political/social issues in a post-revolutionary Romania.
Starting in the 5th grade, Botez attended Liceul de Arte Plastice N.Tonitza, a prestigious fine arts conservatory in Bucharest. She received her BFA in Fashion Design from Bucharest Art Academy and an MFA in Design for Theater and Film from the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.
Career
Her designs have been seen in productions for New York City’s Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bard Summerscape, Baryshnikov Arts Center, David H. Koch Theater/ Lincoln Theater, Big Apple Circus, Soho Rep, La MaMa, The Kitchen, PS122, HERE Arts Center, Joyce Theater, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, BRIC Arts Media, Classic Stage Company, 59E59, LCT3,JACK Brooklyn, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Joe’s Pub, The Public Theater, Brooklyn Lyceum, Women's Project Theater, City Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place.
Regionally: The Wilma Theater, Old Globe Theatre, Jacob's Pillow Dance, Hartford Stage Company, Long Wharf Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, MCA, ODC, Walker Arts Center, Peak Performances Montclair, ADI, Academy of Music, Curtis Institute of Music, Cutler Majestic Theater, Perseverance Theatre, Chautauqua Theater Company.
Internationally: Bucharest National Theatre, Arad National Theatre, Bulandra Theater, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Les Subsistances, National Theatre (Budapest), Hungarian Theatre of Cluj, Bucharest Operetta Theater, International Adana Theater Festival, Le Quartz, La Filature, Exit Festival /Maison des Arts Creteil, Tanz im August Festival Hebbel am Ufer – HAU, Centro Cultural Universidad del Pacífico, Centro Cultural Lima, Palazzo Simoncelli, Edinburgh International Festival, Singapore Arts Festival.
Her collaborators in theater, opera, film and dance include: Robert Woodruff, Richard Foreman, Maya Beiser, Richard Schechner, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Janos Szasz, Daniel Ezralow, Andrei Serban, Blanka Zizka, Daniel Kramer, Jay Scheib, Brian Kulick, Zelda Fichandler, Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar, Michael Sexton, Doug Elkins, Ken Rus Schmoll, Daniel Alexander Jones, Will Davis, Lee Sunday Evans, Zishan Ugurlu, Alec Duffy, Rebecca Taichman, Eric Ting, Razvan Dinca, Karin Coonrod, Kristin Marting, Evan Ziporyn, Eduardo Machado, Gus Solomons Jr. and Paradigm Dance, Carmen DeLavallade, Jackson Gay, David Levine, Sam Gold, Dusan Tynek, Gisela Cardenas, Pavol Liska & Kelly Copper, Matthew Neenan, Molissa Fenley, Paul Peers, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Play Company, Charles Moulton, Janice Garrett, Ripe Time, among others.
Botez is a Princess Grace Recipient and NEA/TCG Career Development Program Recipient. Nominated for The Henry Hewes Design Awards, The Barrymore and Drammy Award. She walked away recipient of both The Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theater and Drammy Award.
Botez has been teaching costume design at Colgate University, Brooklyn College, and MIT.