Peca Ștefan is an author who experiments in immersive storytelling (for stage, screen, site-specific/oriented, mixed media/multimplatform) to create participatory community events. Often interactive, his texts investigate subjective histories in connection with the physical encounter of an audience sharing a space through an artistic event. He is considered one of the most relevant Romanian playwrights. He studied playwriting at New York University and was one of the residents of the International Playwriting Programme at the Royal Court Theatre, London in 2005. His plays have been produced in Romania and abroad, in over 20 countries in Europe, North and South America. In 2010, his play Wire and Acrobats was selected as one of the 5 plays at the Berliner Stueckemarkt at the Berliner Theatertreffen. His play Târgoviște de jucărie (Playground Târgoviște) was invited to the 2012 biennial New Plays from Europe in Wiesbaden. In 2013, Peca Ștefan was one of the 35 European playwrights invited to the 35th anniversary edition of the Berliner Theatertreffen Stueckemark. Since 2015 he has been a partner of PopUp Theatrics in New York. In 2016 and 2017, Peca was a fellow of the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona (CCCB) in the Ageing Democracies program. Between 2021 and 2023 he co-created and wrote the immersive Parallel City (Orașul Paralel) Trilogy about and in three of Timișoara’s historic neighborhoods: Iosefin, Fabric and Elisabetin.