Ion Cojar

Ion Cojar (January 9, 1931 – October 18, 2009) was a Romanian acting teacher, researcher, and theatre director. He is the founder of a unique method in the Romanian school of acting.

Biography Cojar was born in Recaș, a town in Timiș County.

As a professor and researcher at the Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film from Bucharest, Ion Cojar worked with his students to develop a specific psycho-emotional mechanism that would allow them to easily transform conventions in life truth, such as fictional and imaginary life situations. Ion Cojar often said that "the art of the actor has nothing in common with theatre". He supported an educational system of laboratory experimentation and self-knowledge.

Cojar died in Bucharest in 2009, age 78, and was buried with military honors in the city's Sfânta Vineri Cemetery.