CURRICULUM VITAE

Naum Panovski was one of the half-dozen most important and interesting directors in Yugoslavia. His work is unique, powerful, magical and poetic, and is right at the leading edge of European and American performance theory. He is not like Tadeusz Kantor or Robert Wilson or Jerzy Grotowski or Peter Brook, but one gets from his work the same shock of originality….He is the complete man of the theater.
FRED TURNER. Writer, Scholar, Professor. University of Texas at Dallas.

Naum’s directing has always been distinguished by a very strong imagination, a keen eye for the possibilities of a given space, and by his thorough work with the actors...his writings offer ample evidence of his talent.
CARL WEBER. Director, Writer, Professor. Stanford University.

Naum is a theatre artist of genuine stature and recorded accomplishment. He has undefatigable energy, a winning enthusiasm, and the drive to get things done on schedule. He is a devoted teacher, a talented craftsman, and a spiritual force.
ROBERT W. CORRIGAN. Writer, Scholar, Director, Professor. Founder of The Drama Review, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.

Panovski is a scholar who is well attuned to theatrical ventures from all over the world and has not only published a fine book on the theatrical arts but has a deep and abiding concern for issues that matter in the world of the performing arts.
GAUTAM DASGUPTA. Professor, Writer, Co-founder and Co-editor of The Performing Arts Journal. Skidmore College.

Naum has boundless energy and enthusiasm for theatre and its students. His depth of commitment to the art and teaching of theatre is enormously important to theatre artists and students…. By his own respect for theatre he is a positive figure for students to relate to and learn from.
MARTHA COIGNEY, Former Director, ITI/US and Honorary President, ITI/Worldwide

For many years Naum has influenced and inspired many young theatre artists in this country.
ROBERTA LEVITOW, Free lance theatre director and educator

Panovski is a compelling theatre artist and whenever he is directing I send my graduate directors to see the work. I can attest first hand to the vividness, energy and clarity of his work. His own extensive training, worldview and passion for the place of theatre in our lives, he shares generously and most effectively with those lucky enough to be in attendance. The resonances from these events last and last finding their way into countless directing conversations.
KENNETH CAMPBELL. Professor and Director. Virginia Commonwealth University.

Naum Panovski is quite literally a man of the theatre. I stand in awe of the singularity of his vision, of his willingness to look into the darkest of darks and the lightest of light and to encourage us, through his work, to examine who we are as a people. He asks us to quest, to probe, to question and in my mind, that is the highest compliment one can pay a theatre artist. His work is among the most stunningly visual I have had the pleasure to see and participate in. I am proud to call him my teacher, my mentor, my colleague and my friend.
RICHARD St. PETER, Artistic Director Actors Guild of Lexington

Naum is a man who has a unique vision of theater and is not afraid to share that vision with his students. No topic was considered taboo in his classes. From naked shamans dancing around to homosexuality, if it was relevant to our theater, we would talk about it. His vision was broad enough to include almost everyone.
JOSH DUDLEY. Former Student. Cristopher Newport University.