Manana Antadze

Manana Antadze (Georgian: მანანა ანთაძე, born August 28, 1945) is a Georgian writer and translator, and founder of the Tumanishvili Theatre Foundation.

Life and career In 1967 Manana Antadze graduated from Tbilisi State University (TSU), Western European Languages and Literature.

From 1981 to 1989, Antadze was a research associate at the Centre for Contemporary Literary Studies at the Georgian State University. She has been a freelance translator since 1974, and her numerous translations include William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Irving Stone's Lust for Life, and J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

In 2006, Antadze presented the annual awards given for "New Writing" in "New Georgian play" and "The Best Translation". In July 2009. she attended the 31st Cambridge Seminar on Contemporary Literature, then, in August she attended Globe Education Cultural Seminar on "Shakespeare & His Stage".

Antadze's biography is included in Who is Who in Georgia (2009).

Work experience

1971–present, Freelance translator 1981–1989, Center for Contemporary Western Literary Studies, TSU (research associate) 1981–present, Tumanishvili Film Actors’ Theatre (Literary manager) 1998–present, Tumanishvili Theatre Foundation (Founder and President) 2006–present, Legal Leader of International Drama Competition ‘NEW WRITING IN GEORGIA’ 2012–present, Sturua Productions/Founder with Robert Sturua and Gia Tevzadze

Education and training 1962–1967, MA/BA Tbilisi State University (TSU), Western European Languages and Literature 2009, 31st Cambridge Seminar "Contemporary Literature" (alumna) 2009, Globe Education Cultural Seminar "Shakespeare and his Stage" (alumna)

Memberships Inner Wheel (Rotary) Club Eurodram Georgian Writers’ Union Georgian Theatre Craftsmen’ Union

Works Publications 1989, "Edward Albee: Existential Intuition" in Modern Western Drama, with I. Gogoberidze and L. Kereselidze

Translations staged (in Georgian)

1978 – Eugene O'Neill, Desire Under The Elms, director Temur Chkheidze 1980 – William Gibson, The Cry Of Players, director Andro Enukidze 1981 – Moliere, Dom Juan, director Mikheil Tumanishvili 1982 – Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself, director Nana Demetrashvili 2004 – Dario Fo, The Open Couple, director Keti Dolidze 2005 – Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, director Gogi Margvelashvili 2006 – George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber, The Royal Family, director Keti Dolidze 2007 – Nikolai Gogol, Revisor (Inspector), director Otar Egadze 2007 – Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage, commissioned by David Doiashvili 2009 – William Shakespeare, Macbeth, director David Doiashvili 2010 – Edmond Rostand, Cyrano De Bergerac, director David Doiashvili 2010 – David Hastings, One Small Step, commissioned by British Council Georgia 2012 – Terrence McNally, Master Class, director Robert Sturua 2014 – Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths, director David Doiashvili 2015 – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, commissioned by Robert Sturua 2015 – William Shakespeare, King Lear, director Zurab Getsadze 2015 – Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, director Keti Dolidze

Translations published

1971 – Irving Stone, Lust For Life 1978 – H. G. Wells, Russia in the Shadows 1979 – Eugene O'Neill, Desire Under The Elms 2002 – J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 2009 – Tennessee Williams, Camino Real, 2012 – Terrence McNally, Master Class, 2014 – Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, 2014 – Moliere, Dom Juan, 2014 – Edmond Rostand, Cyrano De Bergerac, 2014 – William Shakespeare, Macbeth,

Honors and awards 2002 – Honorary Citizen of Domrémy-la-Pucelle, France. 2015 – Ivane Machabeli Prise