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Diana Buluga | actress


 

Biography

Born:
12 January 1988, Huși, Vaslui

Studies:

- PhD with a thesis on Communitary participation. Performative intervention in Create.Act.Enjoy, Studii doctorale cu tema de cercetare Participare comunitară. Intervenție performativă în cadrul Create.Act.Enjoy, Faculty of Theatre and Television, "Babeș-Bolyai"  University Cluj-Napoca (2022)
- MA: Theatre, Film and Multimedia (Acting) - Faculty of Theatre and Television, "Babeș-Bolyai"  University Cluj-Napoca (2012)

- BA: Acting - Faculty of Theatre and Television, "Babeș-Bolyai" University Cluj-Napoca, professors Ionuț Caras and Mara Opriș (2010)

 

Professional background:

Actress of the Cluj-Napoca National Theatre since 2013.
 

Project coordinator/actor al within the independent theatre and film company Create.Act.Enjoy since 2012.

 

Prizes received:


Individual Awards:

  • The Award Ten Outstanding Young Persons at the TOYP Gala, organised by JCI Romania (2020)
  • The Award Excelența la Feminin pentru Cultură (Women's Prize for Cultural Achievements) at the Women's Excellence Gala, organised by the Businesswomen's Association (Asociația Femeilor de Afaceri) and the City Hall of Cluj-Napoca (2014)

 

Collective Awards:

  • The Award Fondul Jazz in the Park for Terapie prin Artă by Create.Act.Enjoy [Art Therapy by Create.Act.Enjoy] (2019)
  • The Award Cinstim Binele for Terapie prin Artă by Create.Act.Enjoy (2019)
  • The Special Prize for Terapie prin Artă by Create.Act.Enjoy, at the Gala for Media Excellence (2018)
  • The Public Choice Award for the best public health campaign for Terapie prin Artă by Create.Act.Enjoy, at the COPAC Gala (2018)
  • The Grand Prize for Terapie prin Artă by Create.Act.Enjoy, at TEDxEroilor Award (2018)
  • The Excellence Award for Terapie prin Artă by Create.Act.Enjoy, at the Gala for Media Excellence (2017)
  • The Jury Special Prize for the show This is my body. Come into my mind (d. Alexandra Felseghi), at Iași Fringe Festival (2013)
  • The Jury Special Prize for the show This is my body. Come into my mind (d. Alexandra Felseghi), at the National Youth Festival "Orfeu" (2012)

Workshops attended:

- The body uplifted (3rd Meeting Ancient Drama and Politics), coordinated by Io Voulgaraki | Thessaloniki, Greece (2019)

10pentruFILM, coordinated by Cătălin Dordea, at Transilvania International Film Festival | Cluj-Napoca (2019)- Film acting workshop "The face that tells a story", held by Emil Slotea and Andra Chiriac - Cluj-Napoca (2012);

- Movement and corporal expression workshop held by Anna Wehsarg (Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch) - Cluj-Napoca (2011);

- Workshop "ImageWork Training and Michael Chekhov Technique" held by David Zinder - Cluj-Napoca (2011);

- Movement and corporal expression workshop held by Marc Bogaerts Cluj-Napoca (2010);

- Movement and corporal expression workshop held by Florin Fieroiu, Mangalia (2010);

- Workshop "The advantages and risks of social networks" held by Ionuț Caras - Buznea (2010);

- Workshop on sport-theatre held by Dragoș Muscalu - Iași (2010);

- Workshop on dance and corporal expression held by Samuel Mathieu - Toulouse - France (2009);

- Workshop on dance-theatre held by Mihai Mihalcea (National Dance Center) - Cluj-Napoca (2009);

- Workshop on media-theatre held by Cyrill Teste (director) and Patrick Laffont (Visual Arts) from France - Cluj-Napoca (2009);

- Assistant - Workshop held by Robert Cohen (USA) - Cluj-Napoca (2009);

- Assistant - Workshop held by David Esrig (Germ.) - Cluj-Napoca (2008);

- Workshop on dance-theatre and corporal expression held by Frederic Etcheverry and Gloria Aras Gasent( France) - Cluj-Napoca (2008);

- Workshop on choreography held by Valentina di Piante and Vava Ştefănescu - Cluj-Napoca (2008);

- Workshop on Commedia dell'Arte held by Gaspare Nasuto (Italy) -  Cluj-Napoca (2008);

- Acting workshop held by Efrat Stempler - Cluj-Napoca (2007);

- Acting workshop held by Extea Company - Cluj-Napoca (2007).
 

Others:
Conferences and debates:
- Emergent Theatre: Distancing, Interaction and Resilience in the Dramatic Arts of the 21st Century – “Art as Therapy. Reducing the Symptoms of the Burnout Syndrome amongst the Medical Personnel Working in Hospitals, through Artistic Interventions”, The Faculty of Theatre, UNAGE Iași (2022) (online event)
- “Northern Encounters” as part of the Northern Days, Darabani (2021)
- Moinești Medical Days (2021) (online event)
- JCI Talks – “Onstage, offstage and into the community” (2021) (online event)
- Project C – on creativity, people and urban life – “Creativity and the Dramatic Arts” (2020) (online event)
- TED Circles Online (2020) (online event)
- Civicult Dialogues (2020) (online event)
- Creative Mornings Cluj (2020) (online event)
- The Conference RIUF – “Career vs. Passion”, Cluj-Napoca (2019)
- The Conference on Patient Care, Satu Mare – “Art Therapy – an unconventional trajectory, from practice to theory”, Satu Mare (2019)
- TEDxTimișoara – “Encounters. How I learned that art can change a community”, Timișoara (2018)
- Creative Mornings Cluj – “Anxiety”, Cluj-Napoca (2018)

Articles and studies:
- Art as Therapy. Reducing the Symptoms of the Burnout Syndrome amongst the Medical Personnel Working in Hospitals, through Artistic Interventions, THEATRICAL COLLOQUIA, 2022
- The Impact of Artistic Interventions on the Romanian Medical Personnel in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Create.Act.Enjoy, 2022 (co-author)
- Impact of artistic interventions on participants with burnout, Cluj Cultural Centre, 2021 (co-author)
- Art Therapy – from a playful profession to professional play. The New Industrialists, the Creatives 02, 2017

Foreign languages:
English, French.

 

Activity at the National Theatre



  • OASES OF SILENCE participatory installation

    (2022) - artistic concept & directed by

 

Other activities

 

Theatre actress:
- Multiple roles, Gewalt la Darabani (Gewalt in Darabani), a dramatised version of Procesul locuitorilor din Darabani [The People of Darabani, on Trial], written and directed by Ionuț Caras, Good texts in crazy places (2020)
- Performer, PE EI! Fenomenul Pitești [GO GET THEM! The Pitești Phenomenon], written and directed by Ionuț Caras, Good texts in crazy places (2019)
- Multiple roles, LA ÎNCEPUT A FOST SFÂRȘITUL. POVESTEA ADRIANEI GEORGESCU [In the Beginning was the End. Adriana Georgescu’s Story] by Adriana Georgescu, directed by Ionuț Caras, Good texts in crazy places (2018)
- Corina Săcrieru/Dascăl, 3MILIOANE [3MILLION] by Alexandra Felseghi, directed by Adina Lazăr, Create.Act.Enjoy (2018)
- Performer, EAT ME by Alexandra Felseghi, directed by Adina Lazăr, Create.Act.Enjoy (2017)
- Her, AICI.ACUM.ÎNACESTMOMENT [HEAR.NOW.RIGHTNOW] by Alexandra Felseghi, directed by Diana Buluga, Create.Act.Enjoy (2016)
- Dancer, GALAXY, collective screenplay, directed by Cristian Pascariu, choreography: Melinda Jakab, Create.Act.Enjoy (2015)

Film actress:
- Nașa, Nuntă pe bani (feature film), directed by Cristian Ilișuan (2023)
- Mara, Probleme de familie (Family Problems) (short film), directed by Iulia Rugină, 10pentruFILM (2019)
- Ema, Alazia (short film), directed by Cristian Pascariu (2018)

Festivals:
- The National Theatre Festival | Bucharest, Romania (2022)
- ATELIER Theatre Festival | Baia Mare (2022)
- The National Theatre Festival | Bucharest, Romania (2021)
- Northern Days | Darabani, Romania (2021)
- Caleido | Bucharest, Romania (2021)
- Northern Days | Darabani, Romania (2020)
- Europalia | Liège, Belgium (2019)
- Matei Vișniec Theatre Festival | Suceava, Romania (2019)
- The Summer School “Fenomenul Pitești” | Pitești, Romania (2019)
- 3rd Meeting Ancient Drama and Politics | Thessaloniki, Greece (2019)
- Transilvania International Film Festival | Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2019)
- 11plus1 | Craiova, Romania (2019)
- Young Theatre Festival | Sibiu, Romania (2018)
- The National Theatre Festival | Bucharest, Romania (2018)
- Comedy Cluj | Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2018)
- Fringe Bucharest | Bucharest, Romania (2018)
- The International Theatre Festival | Piatra Neamț, Romania (2018)
- Almada International Theatre Festival | Almada, Portugal (2017)
- Schauspielhaus Graz Theatre Festival | Graz, Austria (2016)
- The National Theatre Festival | Bucharest, Romania (2016)
- Fringe Bucharest | Bucharest, Romania (2016)
- Faces Without Masks International Theatre Festival | Skopje, Macedonia (2016)
- Fast Forward: Festival For Young Directors | Braunschweig, Germany (2015)
- The National Theatre Festival | Bucharest, Romania (2015)

Other activities:
- Coordinating and implementing cultural, educational and art therapy projects with the Association Create.Act.Enjoy;
- Coordinating theatre and improvisation workshops for high school students as part of the project Arta în joacă (Art as Play) (Cluj Cultural Centre).