Isabella Draghici

Actress and author from Bucharest, Romania. She worked with film directors such as Raoul Ruiz, Yves Boisset, Alexis Sweet, Martin Papirowski, Serge Celibidache etc. Researcher in Theatre Studies. She has a B.A. in Acting from the University of Theatrical Art and Cinematography (UNATC) Bucharest (2001), and an M.A. in Cultural Studies - Religious Studies, Texts and Traditions from the University of Bucharest, with a dissertation on "Natyashastra" (2013), the oldest Indian treatise on drama. Ph. D. student at the University of Bucharest, Department of Philosophy, with a research focused on the phenomenology of the sacred on stage. She published scientific and cultural articles and she is the author of a book of poetry which inspired her first one woman show, "Printre taceri" ("Silence"). She performed especially in the famous Romanian theatre company "Passe-Partout D.P.", where she developed skills for mime, theatre-dance, physical and visual theatre.