Bobi Pricop is the new artistic director of the Iosif Vulcan Troupe of the Regina Maria Theater in Oradea, and Raluca Rădulescu is the new curator of the Oradea International Theater Festival.

At the invitation of Victoria Balint, appointed interim manager at the Regina Maria Theater in Oradea at the beginning of August, director Bobi Pricop takes over the artistic directorship of the "Iosif Vulcan" Troupe of the Regina Maria Theater in Oradea from the 2024-2025 season, and Journalist and theater translator Raluca Rădulescu will take over, from 2025, the artistic direction of the Oradea International Theater Festival.

„"It is my honor to present the new artistic team of the Regina Maria Theater: these are two valuable theater people, with whom I have been collaborating for a long time and whom I invited to create the theater's artistic strategy together, with the conviction that we can build programs for all Oradea residents, but which will also put our theater and festival on the theatrical map of Europe, not just Romania."” – declare Victoria Balint, interim manager of the Regina Maria Theater)

Bobi Pricop, one of the most appreciated directors of the young generation, concerned not only with his own directorial projects, but also with broader projects, declares: "I thank Victoria Balint for the opportunity to think about and prepare with her the future programs and projects of the Regina Maria Theater. I hope we will manage to implement everything we have set out to do, not just a season, which announces seven new premieres in the repertoire, but also educational components that will address new categories of audience."„

Raluca Rădulescu, translator and theater journalist at Radio Romania, will take over the curatorship of the Oradea International Theater Festival from 2025 and declares: "The Short Theater Festival, one of the first to appear in Romania, then developed into an international festival, and already with ten years of cultural tradition, is an important calling card for Oradea. The big challenge is to understand what "short theater" still means today and to reimagine a festival of the present, with national and international echo, a festival for the local community of one of the most beautiful cities and with the greatest tourist potential in Romania."„

Bobi Pricop one of the most appreciated directors of the young generation and included since 2017 on the list of nominations for the Europe Prize for New Theatrical Realities. He received the UNITER Award for Best TV Theater Show in 2022 (for "Ziua Z") and the "Iulian Vișa" Award at the Sibiu International Theater Festival in 2021. He was nominated several times at the UNITER Awards Gala for "Best Director". He studied the Art of Acting at the "Spiru Haret" University in Bucharest, and then studied Directing at the National University of Theater and Cinematography in Bucharest (UNATC). He is currently a doctoral student at the University of Arts in Târgu-Mureș, in the field of Theater and Performing Arts.

Since 2014, he has been a director at the "Marin Sorescu" National Theater in Craiova, since 2019 he has also been the director of Theatre Networking Talents, a festival organized by the same theater, and since 2022 he has been an associate professor at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.

In his over 10 years of directing career, Bobi Pricop has staged dozens of shows in numerous theaters in Romania, among the most recent productions he has signed are "The Misunderstanding" by Albert Camus at the "Radu Stanca" National Theater in Sibiu (2024), "The Lesson" by Eugene Ionesco at the "Marin Sorescu" National Theater in Craiova (2024), "In Between" at the MINA Museum (2024), "Beauty and the Beast" at the Țăndărică Theater in Bucharest (2024), "Solaris" by Davied Grieg, after S. Lem, at the Excelsior Theater in Bucharest (2023), "Unrest" by Ivan Vîrîpaev at the Odeon Theater in Bucharest (2023) or "Blasted" by Sarah Kane at the "Andrei Mureșanu" Theater in Sfântu Gheorghe (2022), but he has also signed other remarkable productions such as "Trădare" by Harold Pinter at the National Târgu-Mureș (2021), "Ziua Z" by Ionuț Sociu at the Constanța State Theatre (2021), "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry at the Gong Theatre in Sibiu (2020) and "Work. No Travel" by Mihaela Michailov at the Replika Educational Centre in Bucharest (2020), "A Strange Incident with a Dog at Midnight" by Mark Haddon at the National Theatre in Bucharest (2016), nominated for the Best Director Award and the Best Show Award at the UNITER Awards Gala and double-awarded at the Oradea Short Theatre Festival, "Pisica verde" by Elise Wilk at the "Luceafărul" Theatre in Iași (2015), nominated for the Uniter Award for Best Director and awarded for Best Direction at the Atelier Theatre Festival in Baia Mare, "Profu' de religie" by Mihaela Michailov, at the National Theatre National "Marin Sorescu" in Craiova (2013), taken over by Romanian Television and awarded the Audience Award (2nd place) at the "New plays from Europe" Dramaturgy Biennale in Wiesbaden (Germany).

At the Regina Maria Theater in Oradea, Bobi Pricop staged the shows: "The Son" by Florian Zeller (2022) and "The Ritual Murder of Gorge Mastromas" by Dennis Kelly (2015) and received the award for directing at the Short Theater Festival several times.

Raluca Radulescu is a journalist, translator, theatrical curator. A graduate of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Bucharest, she is a doctor in philology from the University of Bucharest, with a thesis on imagology, published under the title "Paris – Moscow via Siberia from Napoleon to Lenin".

Since 1999 she has been a journalist at the Romanian Broadcasting Society and since 2015 she has been producing the show Scena și ecranul, broadcast daily on Radio Romania Cultural.

Since 2005, he has been translating, especially books on classical and contemporary theater and dramaturgy: from Stanislavski to Tarkovsky and Nijinsky, from Chekhov and Gorky to Ivan Vîrîpaev, Mihail Durnenkov, Marina Davîdova, Andrei Kureicik, Natalka Vorojbit, Natalia Block, Andrii Bondarenko, etc.

Since 2016, he has been in charge of the selection of several theater festivals in Romania (Ploiești, Satu Mare, Bucharest), also organizing workshops and theater laboratories (Bucharest, Târgu Mureș, Târgoviște, Arad, Bacău, Satu Mare, etc.) in which Romanian and foreign artists worked together.

Since 2017, he has also been working as a performance playwright, signing the translation and stage version for shows such as: "Exodus" by Marius Ivaškevičius, directed by Oskaras Koršunovas at the National Theater of Timișoara, "#3sisters" after A.P.Cehov directed by Catincă Drăgănescu at the Municipal Theater "Matei Vișniec" in Suceava and "[the] Pes©ăruș" after A.P.Cehov directed by Catincă Drăgănescu at the Classical Theater "Ioan Slavici" in Arad, "MOLIÈRE | ERÉILOM" after J.B. Molière and Mihail Bulgakov directed by Roman Feodori at the Nottara Theater in Bucharest.

In 2021, he curated the independent theater showcase INDEPENDENT-EXTERIOR and the Romanian program within the Worldwide Readings Project, in 18 theaters in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, and in 2022, he translated 12 Ukrainian plays, written after the invasion of Ukraine, and initiated the UNITER Campaign to support artists in situations of risk, but also to raise awareness of the dangers of war: "Romanian artists for Ukrainian artists" carried out in over 50 public and independent cultural institutions, theaters, museums and at Radio Romania Cultural.

In 2023, he translated and published for the first time in Romanian "The Actor's Work on the Role. Ethics" by K.S. Stanislavski and the anthology "An Unbearably Long Embrace" by Ivan Vîrîpaev.

In 2023 she was a member of the jury of the 30th edition of the most important theater festival in the Arab world, the "Cairo International Experimental Theater Festival", and in 2024 on the jury of the "Kontakt" International Festival in Torun, Poland.

She is a member of UNITER & ITI – International Theatre Institute, UZPR – Union of Professional Journalists of Romania, ARTLIT – Romanian Association of Literary Translators & CEALT – European Council of Literary Translators' Associations. 

In 2014 she received the UNITER Special Award for the translation of the volume "The Actor's Work with Himself" by KS Stanislavski, for which she was also nominated for the Romanian Book Industry Gala "Bun de Tipar" for the best translation of the year, and in 2020 she was nominated for the Uniter Awards Gala in the theater criticism category.