Alexandra Ares is a bilingual Romanian American

Romanian American

A Romanian American is a citizen of the United States who has significant Romanian heritage. For the 2000 US Census, 367,310 Americans indicated Romanian as their first ancestry, while 462,526 persons declared to have Romanian ancestry...

 writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

 living in New York, NY. She is a columnist and editor of Manhattan Chronicles, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, TV producer/director and a former theater critic for print and television.

Life

Alexandra was born during the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu

Nicolae Ceausescu

Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian Communist politician. He was General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and as such was the country's second and last Communist leader...

, to a prolific playwright and poet father (Dinu Grigorescu) who later became the deputy Governor of Bucharest

Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

 and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Romania

Prime Minister of Romania

The Prime Minister of Romania is the head of the Government of Romania. Initially, the office was styled President of the Council of Ministers , when the term "Government" included more than the Cabinet, and the Cabinet was called The Council of Ministers...

, and a French teacher mother (Despina Grigorescu). After the fall of communism Alexandra enrolled at the Faculty of Theater and Drama in Bucharest (UNATC) where she received both her undergraduate degree and her PhD in 2007 while also working in TV. She was editor and scorer of TVR

Romanian television

Romanian television may refer to:* Communications media in Romania* Televiziunea Română, TVR, the national television network* List of Romanian language television channels...

 Theater before moving to New York in 1998 and changing her last name to Ares, through marriage. She become an American citizen in 2004, after a career including being a foreign correspondent for Romanian TV and a producer/writer for CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

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She is a member of the Writers Union of Romania and of Dramatist Guild of America, and publisher of www.ManhattanChronicles.com. She currently works as a communications consultant in the UN system.

Works in English

Novels:

• "My Life on Craigslist" - Ebook edition, Independent Publisher; Paperback Trade Edition- Smart Media New York/Create Space
• "The Other Girl" - Ebook and Paperback, Smart Media New York/Create Space
• "Dream Junkies" - Ebook and Paperback, Smart Media New York/Create Space

Plays:

• "Waking Beauty" - The English Version

Works in Romanian

• "Sam Shepard - A Rebel of Rigoris Mortis" (nonfiction, Aldine Publishing House, Bucharest,2005)
• "Stranded in the past" (short stories, Editura Cartea Romaneasca, Bucharest 2005)
• "Waking Beauty" (a bilingual play, Ghepardul Publishing House, Bucharest, 2006)
• "Dream Junkies" (Polirom Publishing House
  Polirom
  Polirom or Editura Polirom is a Romanian publishing house with a tradition of publishing classics of international literature and also various titles in the fields of social sciences, such as psychology, sociology and anthropology. The company was founded in February 1995. The first title...
  
  , Romania, translated in Romanian by Larisa Copaceanu as "Visatoarele", 2008.)

Films

Her documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

s include: “A Certain State of Mind” 1995. “Les Danaides in New York” starred George Ivascu - 1997, “Profile Victor Rebengiuc” – 1993 and “Avignon 94” and “Avignon 95” - two films about the international theater festival of Avignon. 45 mins each.

All Works in Chronological Order

• "Dream Junkies" (EN, written in 2005) - novel, Smart Media New York/Create Space, 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1461087038; ISBN -10: 1461087031

• "The Other Girl" (EN, written in 2010) - novel, Smart Media New York/Create Space, 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1460992531; ISBN-10: 1460992539

• "My Life on Craigslist" (EN written in 2009) - novel, Smart Media New York/Create Space, 2011
ISBN -13: 978-1460985823; ISBN -10: 1460985826

• "MenHeaven" - screenplay (EN, 2009-2010) unproduced, New York

• "Visatoarele" (RO, Dream Junkies, translation to Romanian by Larisa Copaceanu) - novel, Polirom, 2008, Bucharest
ISBN: 978-973-46-1053-2

• "Teatrul American 1980-Present" (RO) - Teza de Doctorat Bucharest, UNATC, 2007
ISBN: N/A

• "Frumoasa Adormita si Trezita/Waking Beauty" (RO/EN) - drama, Ghepardul 2006, Bucharest
ISBN - 10: 973-87926-0-6; ISBN - 13: 978-973-87926-0-4

• INDOIALA (DOUBT by John Patrick Shanley - Translation from EN to RO/Traducere din EN in RO Copyright inregistrat in Romania, 2006

• DIRTY STORY (by John Patrick Shanley) - Translation from EN to RO/Traducere din EN in RO Copywright inregistrat in Romania, 2006.

• "Sam Shepard, Un Rebel al Rigorii Mortale" (RO, Sam Shepard a Rebel of Rigoris Morrtis) - Aldine, 2005
ISBN 973-87034-7-6

• "Exilata in Trecut" (RO, Stranded in the Past) - Cartea Romaneasca, Bucharest, 2005, (short stories written between 1983- 1993); ISBN 973-23-1442-7

External links

• Homepage
• blog