Andreea Vălean born in 1972. She has worked as a social worker in an orphanage and as an Account Executive for Saatchi and Saatchi. She has a Masters Degree in Sociology from Bucharest University and is currently studying directing in Theatre and Film. Her second play How I spent the End of The World was performed at the International Festival in Sibiu and later published in Romanian and English. She is under commission to write a screenplay, after winning a competition organised by the National Office of Cinema. She adapted and directed Emigrants by Slavomir Mrozek at the Casandra Theatre Bucharest and for the ALTFEST in Bistrita and was the director of Poetry Performance at the Cotroceni Palace in 1998. She also represented Romania at the European Playwrights Festival in Berlin in 1998 and has taken part in the Royal Court, London International Writers’ Programme.