Cristina A. Bejan

CRISTINA A. BEJAN is an award-winning Romanian-American historian, theatre artist and spoken word poet living and creating in Paris, E.U.  An Oxford DPhil and a recipient of the (Rhodes) Scholarship and a Fulbright, she has held fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Georgetown University, and the (Woodrow Wilson) Center, and has taught history and theatre at five institutions of higher education. A playwright, Bejan has written nineteen plays, many of which have been produced in the United States, Romania, the United Kingdom and Vanuatu. She writes creatively in five languages and has been published internationally in every genre she writes in: academic, theatrical, and poetry. She is founding executive director of the arts and culture platform Bucharest Inside the Beltway. Under the stage name “Lady Godiva,” she performs her spoken poetry professionally and at open mics. She has written "Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania: The Criterion Association" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and "Green Horses on the Walls" (Finishing Line Press, 2020) and is also a contributing author for "The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos Vol. 3" (University of Indiana, 2018). She has appeared on A&E's The History Channel, C-SPAN and many Romanian TV channels, and her work has been featured in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, American Prospect, Evenimentul Zilei and Observator Cultural, among other publications and audio outlets. Bejan is a founding Advisory Board of Alianța (Washington DC). She is an advocate for Project Hope, Alex Fund, NAMI and RAINN. She is a proud member of the Colorado Authors League, the International Center for Women Playwrights, and the Dramatists Guild of America, and many more professional associations that support writers, women and human rights. Please visit: cristinaabejan.com