Today is the birthday of our colleague Alin Stanciu

Passionate about rafting and paragliding, practicing kickboxing and freestyle wrestling as a teenager, Alin Stanciu now describes himself as a father, devoted husband, concerned with the success of his rapidly approaching wedding, and the search for a family car. It seems he did everything in his time. "What else do I like? Doing theater, finding out stories and initiating projects. I would also like to buy a bicycle. Socializing with friends. In my free time, I am a family man. And I am a man who tends to solve problems," says Alin.

He is one of the few people for whom education, kickboxing and acting had a connection. A connection he discovered in high school, when the student who excelled in physics and biology (subjects that brought him two ten-point grades in the baccalaureate) discovered popularity. At first, his nonchalance was useful, then the fact that he took up fighting. Acting came, somehow, by itself, on the same trend, of an ascending popularity. "I think everyone thinks about becoming an actor at some point. But, beyond the fact that I had caught the taste of popularity, something else mattered: When I looked at the actors, I saw harmony in their eyes, they seemed balanced. I wanted to become like that too. That's in addition to the fact that I had a good reason to miss classes," smiles Alin. In the 10th grade, he enrolled in a theater course that opened his way to specialized festivals, dedicated to high school students, and to awards. He realized that he had a chance and decided to turn his passion into a profession. "During that period, I became friends with Alexandru Mustețea, who will be my godfather at my wedding this year, and Radu Tudosie. The director of the theater in Târgu Jiu, Marian Negrescu, noticed us and offered to prepare us for admission. However, he told us that he does not prepare students for Bucharest. That's how we decided to "We're trying our luck at Târgul Mureș," said Alin. "We convinced the director to let us do something unique. Let's live in the theater for a week. It seemed exciting to us, we were young and we wanted to play. In the morning and afternoon we would prepare for admission, together with him, and in the evening we would receive visitors through the bathroom window," Alin recalls. And the experience proved beneficial. Alin entered the faculty first, and also the first to graduate. Even during his studies, he began collaborating with Teatrul 74 and participated in acting creation camps, experiences that were useful in his later professional rise. But what made a decisive difference to him during his studies was the meeting with director Radu Alexandru Nica. "Radu Nica basically shaped me as an actor. What he offered me was something no professor at the faculty offered me. With him I had my first real theater experience. It was an explosion of mutual inspiration," Alin recalls. The show staged by Radu Nica with the students, Sex, by Justine del Corte, was a huge success, reaching the gallery of paintings with memorable performances of the Student Studio in Târgul Mureș. But Nica's gift to the young actors was different. "At a rehearsal, he gave us a guide: how to do a role in 12 steps. Basically, he was the man who gave us an acting method. If you know these steps, you don't create a character, but a MAN, a believable one. He also gave us an important key: all people, no matter who they are, where they come from, what they do, or what they have done, tend to be happy and tend to save themselves morally," explained Alin.

The first role after graduation was Tipătescu, in A lost letter, on the stage of the Baia Mare theater. In Oradea, he came to the casting with Eugen Neag and took the exam without any problems, especially since the artistic director, Victoria Balint, and the theater manager, Daniel Vulcu, had noticed him at the Gala Hop and in the performances staged at the 74 Theater. Being an actor only on the stage of a state theater was not enough for him. "In 2014, I founded, together with Radu Tudor and Eugen Neag, Impro Patzan. Initially, we played in various pubs and we realized that people resonated with us. But we wanted our own space." This is how Studio Act was born, in the vicinity of the Kosher bar, in a historic building that, renovated with European funds, as young actors dream, could become a museum equipped with a high-caliber multimedia center. Studio Act opened through a festival, (Open Studio Act), supported by a community that donated 75,000 lei on the crownfounding platform CREȘTEM IDEI and today it has become a studio where Oradea residents have the chance to see new, independent shows, invited from other cities, or produced by Oradea actors. And the festival has recorded three editions. "We wanted to make a theater the way we want it and we succeeded in that. What do we want? A correct theater, a fair play theater, contemporary texts, directors and actors as young as possible. We want to make shows that the audience can enjoy and we want the audience to see stories other than the classic ones. In the end, the story is everything. If the story is penetrating, the show will be good, or very good. We search for stories…."„