Dayana Stetco
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| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Professor of English; Artistic Director, The Milena Theatre Group |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | Dayana Stetco is a Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her trilogy of plays, The Falling, was released by Yellow Flag Press in 2016. Her book, Seducing Velasquez and Other Plays, was released by Ahadada Books in 2009. She was a finalist in the National Playwriting Competition sponsored by the National Repertory Theatre Foundation, and has had plays produced in the U.S., her native country, Romania, and the UK. Her fiction, plays, essays, and translations have appeared in Requited, Two Lines, Packingtown Review, BathHouse Hypermedia Journal, Spelk, Emergency Almanac, Metrotimes, Eleven Eleven, Masque & Spectacle, and others. Recently, she co-authored two nonfiction books (In Place of This from Akinoga Press, and Revision: A Memory Book from University of Louisiana Press, 2017). Her new collection of autobiographical plays will be released by Akinoga Press in 2020. She was the 2017-18 Artist in Residence at the Acadiana Center for the Arts, and is the Artistic Director of The Milena Group, an interdisciplinary theatre ensemble she founded in 2000. To date, the group has produced 18 original plays. |
| Interests | Interdisciplinary performance, film, theory, postmodernism, semiotics, art |
| Favorite movies | The Five Obstructions, Intacto, Reconstruction - Nordic cinema (almost everything), The Audition, The Addiction |
| Favorite music | The soundtrack of the play I'm working on at the moment |
| Favorite books | The Glass Bead Game, The New York Trilogy, Labyrinths, Joe Orton - Complete Plays, Pinter (everything), Durrenmatt (everything), Ibsen - Lady From The Sea, The Master Builder |
Which do you prefer and why: whittling with soap or whistling with wood?
I prefer not to answer this question.