Oana Hodade (b. 1985, Romania) is an artist working and living in Cluj-Napoca.

Oana is a performer, author, composer, working primarily in the performing arts. In her work, she explores fragility, intimacy, personal space, rituals and routines of everyday life. She is interested in memory, subjectivity, language, and works with visual and sound archives and collections. She often creates while walking, employing elements of psychogeography to explore interior and exterior landscapes. Oana works at the intersection of literature, poetry, and dramaturgy, with a cinematic point of view. She likes to mix reality and fiction, and experiments with narration and visualisation in theatre. In the larger idea of stage as a ground for multidisciplinarity, her research often intersects with philosophy and anthropology. 

As a performer, she works with body and voice and researches new means of artistic expression.

She also works with sound and creates music, soundscapes for theatre, and soundwalks. She contributes with texts and audio plays for Postnational Interphonic Theatre. 

Her play, Scenes From the Life of the Family Stuck, received UNITER’s 2021 Romanian Play of the Year Award. 

education

2004-2008 BA Acting – University of Arts, Târgu-Mureș
2009-2010 MA Playwriting – University of Arts, Târgu-Mureș
2014-2016 MA Performing Arts and Film – Faculty of Theatre and Film, UBB Cluj-Napoca
2020-2022 MA Theatre Directing – University of Arts, Târgu-Mureș