Birthday: June 30, 1978
PLAYWRIGHT | ACTOR
In 2004 Gabriel Pintilei wrote the play Elevator , staged in the following theatres:
2005 Very Little Theatre, Bucharest, within the project dramAcum, directed by Adriana Zaharia
2006 Monday Theatre at Green Hours, Bucharest, directed by Gabriel Pintilei
2007 Leti Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic, directed by Jiri Trnka
2009 Teatro Taborda, Lisbon, Portugal, directed by Carlos J. Pessoa
2010 New Diorama Theatre, London, Great Britain, directed by Rachel Parish2010 – reading performance directed by Grant Neale, organized by Romanian Cultural Intitute New York, within the project “Reading the tea leaves”, Cărturești Book Exhibition, New YorkAlso, fragments of Elevator were usedfor examsat the National University for Theatre and Film, Bucharest, Prague, Lisbon, London, Helsinki, New York and Chicago.
The play was published in an anthology of plays, “DRAMACUM 2”, Dacia Publishing House, Cluj. Currently, there are some discussions for its publishing by the German publishing house Momento-Buehnenverlag.
Prizes and presence at festivals
2004 Elevator received dramAcum 2 prize at its national playwrighting contest
In 2006, Blifat was awarded with dramAcum 3 prize, the prize included a reading performance at The Very Little Theatre in Bucharest, directed by the author.
2007 Elevator was awarded with The Prize for the best Romanian new play at the Romanian Playwright Festival in Timisoara (for the performance “ELEVATOR” presented by Leti Theatre from Prague, directed by Jiri Trnka)
In 2007 the actress Ana Macovei won Young Actor’s Gala from Mangalia, presenting the monologue ” Small Things “, written and directed by Gabriel Pintilei
2008 scenario for the short “A rare nuance”, directed by Ivo Baru was included in the collage movie from 7 short films, entitled “A man follows a woman”, having the national premiere at Anominul International Independent Film Festival, Sfantu Gheorghe.
2009 Gabriel Pintilei was among the winners of the contest for short stories “A sea of Words”, with “The Clasp-Knife”, event organized by IEMED (Institut Europeu de la Mediterrania) Barcelona, with the support of Ana Lindh Foundation.
2009 the movie Elevator, directed by George Dorobantu was selected for EPFF5 (Fifth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival – Londra)
2010 the movie Elevator was invited at the first edition of “Censorship and R(Evolution)”, Romanian film festival, organised by Stanford University, California, SUA.
2010 the play Blifat won the contest Young Directors, Contemporary Plays and was produced by Odeon Theatre
About prizes of the movie Elevator and other presences on festivals more on: www.elevator.ro
