Miruna Runcan
Miruna Runcan (born October 29, 1954) is a Romanian-born writer, semiotician and theater critic. She received a PhD in Theater's Aesthetics from the Bucharest University of Theater and Film in 1999 on a complex historical and aesthetic research on the Romanian modern stage-directing and theater theories, from 1920 to 1960. Career. After 1989, she was involved in several activist and theatrical projects, both in media ethics and theater criticism. She published the first Romanian book on media law and ethics, for young journalists (1997, Bucharest, All Publishing House), followed by "The Fourth Power: Ethics and  Law for Journalists" (Cluj, 2002, Dacia Publishing House). After 2001, she is professor at Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania. Still, theater criticism and interdisciplinary studies on media, film and theatre constitutes the principle field of her activities in research, writing and teaching. She edited (with Alina Nelega as Editor in chef, C.C. Buricea-Mlinarcic and Anca Rotescu), the first Romanian interdisciplinary magazine dedicated to the alternative theatrical movement, "ultimaT" (Targu Mures, from 1999 to 2000). Then, as a part of an independent theatrical group in Cluj, Teatrul Imposibil, she became the editor in chief of "Man.In.Fest: Performing  Culture Magazine", who became in 2006 an independent publication. In 2004, she starts - together with Romanian playwright and theatre theoretician C.C. Buricea-Mlinarcic – a complex group project, reuniting field research, anthropological analysis and theatre and film creation: the Everyday Life Drama Program. From 2009, the program became the Everyday Drama Laboratory of The Theater Research and Creation Center "Vlad Mugur", awarded with a three-year substantial research grant from the Ministry of Education and Research.