Domnica Radulescu

Domnica Rădulescu is a Romanian-born American writer of novels, plays and books of literary criticism. She is the author of three novels: Train to Trieste, Black Sea Twilight (2010) and Country of Red Azaleas (2016). She has also authored books and edited collections on theater, Eastern European literature, exile literature, representations of women and humor.

Two of her plays, The Town with Very Nice People (2013) and Exile Is My Home (2014) were finalists for the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, Exile Is My Home was presented as a staged reading at TheaterLab off Broadway and was staged as a full production at the Theater for the New City in April 2016. She is a Fulbright scholar and the founding director of the National Symposium of Theater in Academe.

Style Rădulescu's novels feature women protagonists and have themes including female interpersonal relationships, striving for freedom, being nomadic and changing perspective with travel, and repairing problems or personal traumas.

Two novels, Train to Trieste and Black Sea Twilight, take place during the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu and describe daily life experiences and culture in Romania as part of the Eastern Bloc.

Awards Exile Is My Home won the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors's 2016 HOLA Award for performance by an ensemble cast.

Works

Fiction Country of Red Azaleas, 2016. Black Sea Twilight, 2010 Train to Trieste 2008

Plays Exile is my Home : Four plays by Domnica Radulescu, 2014 Dos obras dramáticas, 2016 Madame Monde/Madam World: One-Act and Short Plays, 2023

Memoir Dream in a Suitcase, 2021

Anthology Voices on the Move, 2020 Immigrant Voices in the Pandemic

Literary Criticism Theater of War and Exile. Twelve Playwrights, Directors and Performers from Eastern Europe and Israel, 2015 Women’s Comedic Art as Social Revolution. Five Performers and the Lessons of Their Subversive Humor. McFarland Publishing, 2011 Realms of Exile. Nomadism, Diasporas and Eastern European Voices, 2002 Sisters of Medea. The Tragic Heroine across Cultures, 2002