Ms. Botez is a Obie Award Winner, Henry Hewes Design Award Honoree, Princess Grace Recipient, NEA/TCG Career Development Program Recipient and NEA/TCG Round of Global Connections Program. Nominated for The Lucille Lortel Award, The Theatre Bay Area Awards, The Henry Hewes Design Awards, The Barrymore and Drammy Award. Oana also walked away recipient of The Barrymore and Drammy Award.
Her designs have raised critical acclaim in New York’s BAM Next Wave, Bard SummerScape/Richard B.Fisher Center, Baryshnikov Arts Center, The David H. Koch Theater/Lincoln Center, Soho Rep, LCT3, The Public Theater, 59East59, La MaMa, The Kitchen, PS122, HERE Arts Center, The Joyce Theater, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, BRIC Arts Media, Big Apple Circus/Lincoln Center, and The Classic Stage Company.
Regionally: The Wilma Theater (Philadelphia, PA); Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (Becket, MA); Hartford Stage Company (CT); Long Wharf Theater (New Haven, CT); CalShakes (San Francisco); Actors Theatre of Louisville, Shakespeare Theater (DC); Berkeley Rep (CA); ArtsEmerson (Boston, MA); Broad Stage (Santa Monica, CA); MCA (Chicago, IL); Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, DC); ODC (San Francisco); The Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN); Peak Performances (Montclair, NJ); ADI (Rockville, MD); Academy of Music (Philadelphia, PA); Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia, PA); Cutler Majestic Theater (Boston, MA).
Internationally: Bucharest National Theater (Romania); Arad National Theater (Romania); Bulandra Theater (Bucharest, Romania); Théâtre National de Chaillot (Paris); Les Subsistances (Lyon, France); The Old Vic (London, England); Budapest National Theater; Hungarian Theatre of Cluj (Romania); Bucharest Operetta Theater (Romania); International Festival of Contemporary Theater (Adana, Turkey); Le Quartz (Brest, France); La Filature (Mulhousse, France); Exit Festival/Maison des Arts Creteil (Paris, France); Château de Versailles (France); Tanz im August Festival, Hebbel am Ufer - HAU1 (Berlin, Germany); Centro Cultural Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru); Centro Cultural (Lima, Peru); Palazzo Simoncelli (Orvieto, Italy); Edinburgh International Festival (UK); Singapore Arts Festival.
Her collaborators in theater, opera, film and dance include: Robert Woodruff, Les Waters, Richard Foreman, Yuval Sharon, Saheem Ali, Denice Graves, Maya Beiser, Richard Schechner, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Janos Szasz, Andrei Serban, Blanka Zizka, Daniel Ezralow, Daniel Kramer, Jay Scheib, Brian Kulick, Zelda Fichlander, Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar, Doug Elkins, Ken Rus Schmoll, Michael Sexton, Daniel Alexander Jones, Will Davis, Lee Sunday Evans, Megan Sandberg-Zakian, Mary Birnbaum, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Awoye Tiempo, Tea Alegic, Geoff Sobelle, Kristin Linklater, Zishan Ugurlu, Rebecca Taichman, Eric Ting, Alec Duffy, Michael Joseph McQuilken, Razvan Dinca, Karin Coonrod, Kristin Marting, Evan Ziporyn, Eduardo Machado, Gus Solomon Jr. & Paradigm, Carmen DeLavallade, Jackson Gay, David Levine, Dusan Tynek, Rania Ajami, Gisela Cardenas, Pavol Liska & Kelly Copper, Matthew Neenan, Molissa Fenley, Parallel Exit, Pig Iron Company, Play Company, Charles Moulton, Ripe Time, and others.
Ms. Botez is a graduate of Bucharest Art Academy (Romania) and received an MFA in Design from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. Ms. Botez was a major contributor for the first Romanian theater design catalogue, called Scenografica. Ms. Botez has been teaching costume design at Colgate College, Brooklyn College, and MIT.