Born into an acting family, the son of Iurie Darie and Consuela Roșu, he graduated from the Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in Bucharest in 1983.
[1] He directed dozens of plays[2][3] and was the director of the Bulandra Theater in Bucharest from 2002 until his death in 2019.
[9] During his career he directed many plays including The Sexton by Marin Sorescu, The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertold Brecht, 1794, adapted by Oana Turbatu and Alexandru Darie after Danton by Camil Petrescu, Danton's Death by Georg Büchner, and Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss.
In 1995, he directed Three Sisters" by Anton Chekhov, for which he won the UNITER [ro] Prize for the best director.
He also directed works by William Shakespeare, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, and Coriolanus.