Crina Mureșan

Crina Mureșan studied Acting in the class of Sanda Manu at the Academy of Thetre and Film. Since 1995, she has been an actress at the Odeon Theatre, where she has played numerous parts, including that of Marjorie in William Mastrosimone’s Extreme, Eve in Katalin Thuroczy’s joi.megaJoy, Varya in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, Fatima in the stage adaptation of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, Marisol in José Rivera’s Marisol, Maria in Alexandr Galin’s Stars in the Morning Light, Lisa in a stage adaptation of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Lise in Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles Soeurs, and Gavrilescu in an adaptation of Mircea Eliade’s At the Gypsy Women’s.

She has appeared at many other theatres in Bucharest, playing the Countess of Salisbury in Shakespeare’s Edward III, Elizaveta Bam in Daniil Kharms’s Elizaveta Bam, Koharu in an adaptation of C. Monzaemon’s The Bloody Lovers, Antigone in Sophocles’ Antigone, and Mistress Ford in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. She has worked with leading directors including Alexandru Tocilescu, Alexander Hausvater, Alexandru Dabija, and Radu Afrim.

Crina Mureșan is also noted for her work in radio theatre: The Tawny Owl, adapted by Mircea Albulescu, Heart of Stone by Wilhelm Hauff, The Legend of Santa Claus, Men and Stones by Mircea Eliade, The Nameless Man, adapted by Costin David from Stefan Heym’s historical novel Account of King David, Father Sergey by Lev Tolstoy, and The Tales of Scheherazade, among others.

In 2007, she was nominated for the UNITER Award for Best Actress in a Leading Rôle for her Elizaveta in Elizaveta Bam, and in 2017 she received the Honorary Acting Award for her part in the show Three Generations at the Brașov International Contemporary Drama Festival.