Andrei Şerban Traveling Academy 2011: Ipoteşti, Romania

Get a glimpse into the 3rd edition of the Andrei Şerban Traveling Academy, which took place in July 2011 in Ipoteşti, Northern Romania. The academy brought together young Romanian actors under 30 in three consecutive intensive workshops held by acclaimed U.S.-Romanian theatre director and teacher Andrei Şerban. This third generation of the Academy has been organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute and RCI New York in collaboration with the "Ion Sava" Theatre Research Center (The National Theatre Bucharest) and the Ipoteşti Memorial - "Mihai Eminescu" National Center of Research, which will host the workshops.

The Andrei Serban Traveling Academy was launched in 2007 at the initiative of Corina Şuteu, the director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York. It has become a framework program of the Romanian Cultural Institute, gathering for each edition a diverse range of partners in Romania and the U.S. The Academy has been conceived as a laboratory for young actors in Romania, allowing them to "evade from what one already knows and reinvent oneself from scratch," as one of the participating actors referred to his work in the Academy's workshops.