Eugen Jebeleanu

Country: Romania
Company: Teatrul National « Radu Stanca » & International Theater Festival in Sibiu

Biography

Eugen Jebeleanu is a theatre, opera and film director based in Paris and Bucharest. A graduate of the University of Theatre and Dramatic Arts Bucharest and a master’s program in directing and dramaturgy in Paris, he has written and directed numerous theatre and opera productions across Europe. In 2010, he co-founded Compania 28 with playwright Yann Verburgh, followed by Cie des Ogres in 2017. His works have been programmed at festivals in Romania, Denmark, Germany, Moldova or France, and he has directed plays at the prestigious National Theater in Stuttgart and Opera in Lyon.

For the show Itinerary. One day, the world will change directed in 2019 he received the award for best director at the UNITER Awards Gala. Eugen’s film debut, « Poppy Field » (2021), was selected in Tallinn Black Nights IFF, Gijón International Film Festival, Queer Lisboa, BFI Flare, etc., and awarded the Golden Bayard in Namur IFF and Best LGBT Film in Molodist Kyiv IFF. His second feature « Internal Zero » recently premiered at Vilnius IFF 2025 in the Smart7 Competition.

Eugen is currently developing his third film, « The Price of Gold ».

Pedersen Teorema – Theorem

 

After Pier Paolo Pasolini

Directed by Eugen Jebeleanu

Dramaturgy and adaptation: Yann Verburgh

Set Design: Velica Panduru

Music: Remi Billardon

Lighting design: Cristian Niculescu

With: Gyan Ros, Cendana Trifan, Raluca Iani, Adrian Matioc, Antonia Dobocan, Radu Costea, Patrick Imbrescu

Assistant director: Ania Petrean

Project management: Claudia Maior

Marketing coordination: Violeta Buduleci

Project assistance: Paula Dalea

Scenography assistance: Sabina Reus

Set construction: Tukuma Works

Technical direction: Ovidiu Coca

Sound: Bogdan Ropcean

Lighting: Dorin Părău

Booths: Elena Harșan

Props: Ana Dumitru

Makeup and hair: Elena Vlad

Ser assistants: Dan Dancășiu, Iliu Gheorghe

Production manager: Alin Gavrilă

Avant-premiere: June 3, 2024

Production of the National Theater in Sibiu

Synopsis

A young man enters the home of a rich bourgeois. He is beauty itself. And his arrival is more a visit that is fulfilled by physical possession. The maid, Emilia, then the son of the family, Pietro, the mother, Lucia, the daughter, Odetta, and the father, Paolo, all get to know the guest in the biblical sense. But after his sudden departure, what will be left of the message he left? Will only the servant know salvation? For, unlike the bourgeois, according to Pasolini, she has not replaced her conscience with her soul, nor her morality with her sense of the sacred.

The director’s statement

“Theorem is about the stranger next door, a recurring theme in my projects, and this narrative has always been my main reference when analysing this aspect. After Fassbinder’s Katzelmacherand Arthur Miller’s View from the Bridge, texts that explore very deeply this theme of the other as a revealing factor of identity and intimate and political discovery, Theorem is my most authentic gesture today in my attempt to explore otherness regarding everything that goes outside the pattern, the norm, the conventional structures. With this text, and through the adaptation and contextualization of Yann Verburgh’s dramaturgy, I want to search for the repercussions of the stifled desire that awakens demons, but also identity revelations. As a fable of the new sexual revolution, I wish to conceive a performance about the dialogue between desire and assumption. The visitor, this object of impossible desire, becomes the engine that triggers the deepest and most visceral feelings, sensations and instincts. Based on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s novel, the dramaturgy and the directorial concept will revolve around the question: Who is the stranger in me, as a reflection of the mirror turned towards those who have alienated themselves. Are we in tune with who we are? Do we know ourselves? Do we have the freedom to take responsibility for our actions? These are some of the questions that we are asking the audience through this intimate and political manifesto.” – Eugen Jebeleanu, director.

Contact details for professional interest (touring, etc.)

Vicentiu Rahau