Georges Banu (22 June 1943 – 21 January 2023) was a Romanian-born French writer, theatre critic, and academic.

[1] Born in Buzău on 22 June 1943, Banu studied at the Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film.

He began writing essays on theatre and was notably the author of Théâtre sortie de secours, L'Acteur qui ne revient pas, Notre théâtre, La Cerisaie, L'Homme de dos, and Peter Brook.

In 1990, he founded the Académie expérimentale des théâtres, which ceased operations in 2001, alongside Michelle Kokosowski [fr].

He was co-director of the magazine Alternatives théâtrales and director of the Actes Sud collection "Le temps du théâtre".