In addition to teaching directing, acting, and performance studies (MFA & Doctoral Programs) at the Faculty of Theatre and Television of the University of Cluj, and his position of General Director of the National Theatre in Cluj, Maniutiu has also been Artist-in-Residence at the Center of Excellence in Image Study at the University of Bucharest (MFA Program in Performance) since Fall 2009.
In 2009, he directed a production, based on Euripides, entitled The Bacchae Trilogy, with an especially strong ensemble of mainly graduate actors and faculty artist Keith Fowler.
Continuing to the present at UCI (now as a Distinguished Professor), in 2013 he directed a re-imagining of Euripides' Trojan Women, entitled After Troy.
In 2024, he directed a production of Ionesco's, The Bald Soprano at UCI in the Robert Cohen Theater.
Maniutiu holds a PhD in Theatre Theory from the Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in Bucharest (2006).