Margareta Niculescu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Margareta Niculescu

Romanian theatre director and puppeteer

Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1926

Place of Birth: Iași, Iași County, Romania

Date of Death: 19-Aug-2018

Profession: puppeteer, theater director

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Margareta Niculescu (4 January 1926 – 19 August 2018) was a Romanian artist, puppeteer, director, teacher and theater director.
She contributed to the renewal, since 1950s, of the art of puppetry in Europe and the rest of the world.
She was director of Tandarica Theatre of Bucharest.
From 2000 until 2004 she was president of the International Puppetry Association in Charleville-Mezieres, in Ardennes, and co-founded with Jacques Felix, the National School of Puppetry Arts in that city.
In 1978 she won the Erasmus Prize together with other noted puppeteers Yves Joly, Peter Schumann and the Napoli brothers.