ON THEATRE, FILM, LIFE & SOCIETY

 

Naum is a theatre artist of genuine stature and recorded accomplishments. He has indefatigable energy, a winning enthusiasm, and the drive to get things done on schedule. He is a devoted teacher, a talented craftsman, and a spiritual force. 
ROBERT W. CORRIGAN. Founder of The Drama Review, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU

 

Naum Panovski was one of the half-dozen most important and interesting directors in Yugoslavia. His work is unique, powerful, magical and poetic, and is right at the leading edge of European and American performance theory. He is not like Tadeusz Kantor or Robert Wilson or Jerzy Grotowski or Peter Brook, but one gets from his work the same shock of originality. He is the complete man of the theater.
FRED TURNER. Writer, Founding Professor. University of Texas at Dallas.
 

Naum’s directing has always been distinguished by a very strong imagination, a keen eye for the possibilities of a given space, and by his thorough work with the actors...his writings offer ample evidence of his talent. 
CARL WEBER. Director, Writer, Professor. Stanford University.
 

Panovski is a scholar who is well attuned to theatrical ventures from all over the world and has not only published a fine book on the theatrical arts but has a deep and abiding concern for issues that matter in the world of the performing arts. 
GAUTAM DASGUPTA. Writer, Co-founder/Co-editor of The Performing Arts Journal. 
 

Naum has boundless energy and enthusiasm for theatre and its students. His depth of commitment to the art and teaching of theatre is enormously important to theatre artists and students… By his own respect for theatre he is a positive figure for students to relate to and learn from. His record of scholarship and creative work in theatre and television are impressive. 
MARTHA COIGNEY. ITI/US Director and Honorary President ITI/Worldwide
 

​Naum is skillful and imaginative director. He combines professional skills of respected practitioner with critical and analytical skills of internationally admired scholar. The people that I admire in American theatre, admire and respect Naum.
SANDY ROBINS, Director of the Professional Theatre Training Program, University of Delaware

 

Naum is very serious scholar and talented artist who writes well and brings his talent and rich experience  of European theatre to the academe and theatre in the U.S.
ANNE BOGART. Professor, Colombia University, Artistic Director of CITI Compan

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For many years Naum has influenced and inspired many young theatre artists in this country. 
ROBERTA LEVITOW. Free Lance theatre director and educator

Naum Panovski, is one of the very few “artist scholars” who has an extensive professional career in which both artistry and scholarship have been of consistently high quality....Naum Panovski is a Renaissance man in the truest sense of the term.
ROLAND L. REED. Playwright, Ex-Director of the MFA Playwriting at CUA. Washington DC

 

I am very impressed by Naum Panovski’s directing abilities, talent, and by the congenial, warm atmosphere which Naum creates around everything and everyone to do with his productions. The breadth and scope of his knowledge of international theatre, combined with his teaching skills, make him unique. 

JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE. Playwright.

 

Naum Panovski is a rare and many-gifted scholar and artists of genuine stature and recorded accomplishments.
RAJKO GRLIC. Film Director, Eminent Professor of Film, Ohio University.

 

Naum Panovski, is a real credit to the Fulbright program, and the U.S. is lucky to have such a cultural ambassador. I believe he made a deep impression with the students here in Sarajevo. That’s a huge thing.

JAMES HAGENGRUBER, Cultural Attaché, U.S. Embassy Sarajevo.  

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Naum is that rare combination of a true intellectual, who has pursued an academic career of the highest level, and a highly successful and creative theatre director.
DAVID ZINDER. Professor, Tel Aviv University

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Naum Panovski is quite literally a man of the theatre. I stand in awe of the singularity of his vision, of his willingness to look into the darkest of darks and the lightest of light and to encourage us, through his work, to examine who we are as a people. He asks us to quest, to probe, to question and in my mind, that is the highest compliment one can pay a theatre artist. His work is among the most stunningly visual I have had the pleasure to see and participate in. I am proud to call him my teacher, my mentor, and my colleague.
RICHARD St. PETER. Former student, Artistic Director Actors Guild of Lexington
 

Naum is a man who has a unique vision of theater and is not afraid to share that vision with his students. No topic was considered taboo in his classes. From naked shamans dancing around to homosexuality, if it was relevant to our theater, we would talk about it. His vision was broad enough to include almost everyone.
JOSH DUDLEY. Journalist. Former Student. Christopher Newport University.