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Cristina Bejan

CRISTINA BEJAN

  (1982 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Cristina Adriana Bejan, born 29 April 1982 is a Romanian-American scholar, writer and Theatre artist. She received her Masters and Doctorate in Modern History at Wadham College, University of Oxford, with the support of Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships. For her BA Bejan studied Theatre and Philosophy at Northwestern University. She has authored fifteen plays and her creative work has appeared in the US, UK, Romania and Vanuatu. She is Executive Founding Director of Bucharest Inside the Beltway arts collective in Washington DC, http://www.bucharestinsidethebeltway.com/

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Cristina Bejan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Be a Good Girl         Buchenwald         Colombo Calling - A Play From Sri Lanka         Credo         Curious or Insecure in Odessa: A backwards love story         Districtland         Etrangere         Finally Quiet In My Head         Gateway To Heaven         Happiness Business, The         In Search Of Couches         Neighbor, NYmpho, Fighter Friend         Ol Woman Naoia: tri blong hanred plis         To Those Who Haven't Started Believing         To Those Who Haven't Stopped Thinking

Be a Good Girl

Synopsis:
Be a Good Girl centers around Sophie as she grapples with her own sexuality and difficult relationships with the women in her life: her controlling mother Jane and her prudish younger sister Maria. Sophie reaches out to her long lost flame "Pornstar" and confides in her therapist. Meanwhile Maria struggles with her boyfriend Edward and Jane meddles in her daughter's life.

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1st Produced:
Public Reading Nov. 29, 2006, 57 Aston St. Oxford    Jul 2006

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Buchenwald

Synopsis:
Buchenwald explores man's hunger for power and the fight for something greater than the individual. Set in 1946, the show discloses the continued use of Nazi concentration camps as Soviet extermination camps for the Germans. Imprisoned by the Soviets, Nazi SS Colonel Max Richter reaches out to save the future of his young Soviet guard, Sasha Novsky.

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1st Produced:
The Struble Theatre, Northwestern University    2004

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1st Published:
Timpul Magazine, Iasi, Romania (translated into Romanian) (2008)   -

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Colombo Calling - A Play From Sri Lanka

Synopsis:
Having recently received a PhD from Cambridge, Karthi returns to Colombo for the first time in twenty-two years. He comes to settle family affairs as his mother lays on her death-bed in London. His male cousin, Shahan, is a loud, vocal Sri Lankan with a very strong Tamil identity, and Shahan's sister, Thushanti, is Colombo's most famous and desired party girl. Shahan works for an American NGO set up post- Tsunami through which met his white girlfriend, Molly. Karthi's aunt, Varthini, has difficulty accepting Karthi's family's rejection of their homeland, her own children's erratic behavior and the extreme changes happening in Sri Lanka due to never-ending civil war, natural disaster and international humanitarian intervention. Facing discrimination and racism even as a visitor, Karthi learns what it means to be Tamil in today's Sri Lanka.

Notes:
Colombo Calling was produced As A live-reading in Bucharest, Romania, in 2008 At Teatrul Foarte Mic And Museo Cafe, starring Maia Morgenstern As Varthini, And directed by Alex Mihail.

1st Produced:
Bucharest    2008

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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Credo

Synopsis:
On Christmas eve, 16 year-old Jonas is called upon by God (in the form of Ozzy Osbourne) to be the next Messiah. Jonas' Israeli-Jewish father, lapsed-Catholic mother and troubled adolescent sister are more than reluctant to believe him. Jonas struggles with self-doubt but ultimately accepts the challenge when visited by Jesus Christ himself who emerges out of a poster in Jonas' room, as Kurt Cobain.

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1st Produced:
The Moser Theatre, Oxford, Uk    2005

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Genre:
absurd One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Curious or Insecure in Odessa: A backwards love story

Synopsis:
Curious or Insecure in Odessa is a backward love story told backwards. It begins with the final conversation held between Rose, an Ukrainian-American PhD student, and her lover, Stellan, a Swedish ex-pat short story author living in Odessa. This play as an attempt to better understand what makes us take the destructive leap of faith necessary to fall in love. the overarching question 'Curious or Insecure?' is relevant to both Rose and Stellan when considering why the two were drawn to each other, as an unlikely pair of misfits in an east european barren urban landscape. the play does not aim to give an answer, but does suggest that Rose is mainly curious, whilst Stellan is primarily insecure, and that we all are, when it comes to love, a bit of both.

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1st Produced:
-    2009

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Districtland

Synopsis:
A day in the life of group of young DC go-getter types, living in a shared house in a transition neighborhood. Frank interns on Capital Hill, Dave is an unemployed Georgetown Law grad, Charity is a former Peace Corps who works for an indigenous NGO and Maria is a Cuban-American Rhodes scholar at the State Department. Professional and relationship Drama ensue including Frank's unrequited love of the lone DC native, A'isha. the script is a glimpse into the various DC worlds the characters interact with: including the IMF, World Bank, McKinsey, spoken word poetry (e.g. Busboys and Poets), an Afghani cabbie's quest for literary fame and an absolutely absurd lobbying group called Saving the Dogs of Bucharest.

Notes:
world premiere took place in July 2014 at the Capital Fringe Theatre Festival in Washington DC, directed by John Dellaporta. The show sold-out its entire extended run. Excerpts from the play will be performed in Bucharest in October 2014.

1st Produced:
Redrum, 612 L Street Nw, Washington, Dc 20001    11 Jul 2014

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Genre:
satire

Parts:
Male:  5/6            Female:  5/6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Etrangere

Synopsis:
a stark exploration of both sides' of the Atlantic inability to understand one another. a play about the ultimate alienation of the individual, set against the back-drop of a decaying love story in London and a terrorist kidnapping in Paris.

Notes:
Semi-finalist in the Oxford University Dramatic Society New Writing Festival 2005

1st Produced:
The Burton Taylor Theatre, Oxford, Uk    2005

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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Finally Quiet In My Head

Synopsis:
Finally Quiet in My Head tells the story of native Washingtonian, African-American Morgan and her unlikely friendship with Gerard, the Senegalese man whose humor and kind spirit might have saved Morgan inside the hospital. It explores the struggles Morgan's family and friends face when coming to terms with Morgan's mental illness, and the inability for her loved ones and doctors alike to understand what it means for her. This play examines the intersections between mental illness and race, gender-based violence, and socio-economic status, all within the context of the District of Columbia.

Notes:
Finalist in the Oxford University Dramatic Society New Writing Festival 2006. Finally Quiet In My Head was produced at the DC Black Theatre Festival at the Anacostia Arts Center on June 20 -21, 2015. Then it appeared at the Kennedy Center on September 5, 2015 as part of the Page to Stage Festival.

1st Produced:
The Moser Theatre, Oxford, UK    2006

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1st Published:
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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Gateway To Heaven

Synopsis:
Bohemian Karl rubs elbows with Ronald Reagan and Madonna in the waiting room to Heaven, as Joan of arc presides as the registrar/St. Peter's personal secretary.

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1st Produced:
The Moser Theatre, Oxford, Uk    2005

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Genre:
absurd One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Happiness Business, The

Synopsis:
Radu moves out of his NYC apartment he shares with Jeni, to find an environment more conducive to his creativity. He goes to South Carolina where he helps his uncle, Eugene, set up a travel agency in Myrtle Beach. Conversations with Eugene and a client, Leonora, reveal that home is not necessarily where the heart is, and that much of life is about getting back to business.

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Genre:
one act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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In Search Of Couches

Synopsis:
a dress rehearsal, of the play "No exit" by Sartre, in which we learn how in the world of 'the theatre' hell can really be other people.

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1st Produced:
The Burton Taylor Theatre, Oxford, Uk    2002

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1st Published:
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Genre:
absurd One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Neighbor, NYmpho, Fighter Friend

Synopsis:
One-woman's take on a bizarre family living next door when their lives are destroyed by an incomprehensible murder.

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1st Produced:
-    2003

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1st Published:
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Genre:
Drama/musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ol Woman Naoia: tri blong hanred plis

Synopsis:
Ol Woman Naoia: tri blong hanred plis chronicles one day in the life of three young wome who work at the same non-profit in Port Vila, the capital city of Vanuatu, an island archipelago in the South Pacific. Leipakoa suffers from domestic violence. Ana wins a scholarship to study abroad but struggles with the prospect of leaving her young daughter. Dawn is the expat volunteer who feels out of place in ni-Vanuatu society, as well as the expat world. She has a very awkward lunch with Hilary, a typical racist expat. the script is in english, Bislama (the local pidgin dialect) and French, sufficiently representing the melange of languages spoken in Port Vila. there is also a chorus of women who open and close the show, and participate throughout when the scene calls for extras. This project was created in the spring of 2010 in Port Vila, Vanuatu, by a group of local women, Ni-Vanuatu and expat. the group collaborated with VANGO, the central headquarters of all NGOs in Vanuatu, the University of the South Pacific and UNIFeM, which sponsored the post-show talk-back on opening night.

Notes:
A theatre play created by women living in Port Vila : Alison Donley; Anna Naupa; Anthea Toka; Charlotte Pitts; Cristina Bejan; Ellenson Taurakoto; Geraldine Tavoa; Hanna Lindley-Jones; Jani Moon; Josiana Jackson; Olivia Johnson; Rebecca Olul; Sally Carter; Tracey Martin

1st Produced:
Club Vanuatu, Vanuatu Amateur Theatrical Society (Vats)    Apr 2010

Organisations:
Ol Woman Naoia

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  Approximately 16            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://olwomannaoia.wordpress.com/

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To Those Who Haven't Started Believing

Synopsis:
the sequel to 'To Those Who Haven't Stopped Thinking.' Same characters, Same place. the Politician has been assassinated. Hannah and Vlad stand on Vlad's balcony and survey the destruction of the city. they kiss. Now what? Religion begins to infiltrate the Universe in a seemingly unstoppable way. Hannah attempts to 'help' and Vlad gives up in favor of serving the system.

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Genre:
avant-garde, Full-length

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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To Those Who Haven't Stopped Thinking

Synopsis:
a play about philosophy, love and saving the Universe. Set in a desolate post-apocalyptic land called 'the Universe' characters Hannah (a young philosopher from 'the Beyond') and Vlad (an older teacher from 'the Beyond') come together to 'help' the people of the universe: the Citizens and the Givers.

Notes:
Six Actors/actresses Are required to play the Citizens And Givers, each role can be played by either gender

1st Produced:
The Burton Taylor Theatre, Oxford, Uk    2003

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
avant-garde, Full-length

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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