Manana Antadze

Life and career

Work experience

• 1971–present, Freelance translator
• 1981-1989, Center for Contemporary Western Literary Studies, TSU
• 1981–present, Tumanishvili Film Actors’ Theatre
• 1998–present, Tumanishvili Theatre Foundation
• 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, Western European Languages and Literature
• 2009, 31st Cambridge Seminar "Contemporary Literature"
• 2009, Globe Education Cultural Seminar "Shakespaere and his Stage"

  Memberships

• Inner Wheel 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, 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, Masterclass, 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, Masterclass,
• 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