Born in the city of Beclean in Romania in 1968, Radu Afrim obtained his first degree as a philologist of Romanian and French in 1995 and his second one as a theatre director in 2000, both from Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. Often referred to as the “daredevil” of the Romanian theatrical scene, Afrim has risen to notice both for his daring directorial interpretations of classical plays for the stage and his productions of contemporary Russian, Danish, Swiss, German, French, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, and Hungarian literary texts, which usually take the form of adaptations. Some of his works are so-called “authorial productions” based on improvisation, with the texts often written jointly by him and the members of the theatrical company. He has directed performances in almost every theatre in Romania. He has won the UNITER Prize for best director, awarded by the Theatre Union of Romania, on two occasions, most recently for his production of Tranquility.