She has also served as the NYSCA playwright-in-residence for Women's Project, writer-in-residence of East Coast Artists, and Director of International Exchange for The Lark Play Development Center (TCG New Generations / New Leaders Fellow) in New York.
Her US plays include Aliens with Extraordinary Skills,[6] Ants, White Embers (all published by Samuel French), Useless, Toys, For a Barbarian Woman, Lenin's Shoe, Waxing West, What Happens Next, Bee Trapped Inside a Window, and Zebra 2.0.
Stănescu is also a celebrated professor and has taught Playwriting and Contemporary Theatre/Drama at NYU Tisch (2004-2012), Strasberg Institute for Theatre&Film, ESPa Primary Stages, and Fordham University.
[7] Born in Bucharest and raised in Curtea de Argeș, first capital of Walachia, and Pitești, an industrial town, in Romania, Saviana Stănescu spent her formative years under Nicolae Ceaușescu's dictatorship.
Before immigrating to the United States, Stănescu made a name for herself in Romania as a poet and playwright: she published three books of poetry, Love on Barbed Wire (1994), Advice for Housewives and Muses (1996), and The Outcast (1997).