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Founder, managing director and stage director of Theatre Laboratory Sfumato. Professor at the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts, Sofia. More than 150 mises-en-scène for drama theatre, TV and Opera, based on texts of Bulgarian, Russian and West European classics and Bulgarian contemporary playwrights, as the mises-en-scene at “Ivan Vazov” National Theatre after Molière, Sophocles, A. de Musset, P. Yavorov, K. Iliev, I. Turgenev, etc.

Creations in Sfumato: 2014 Program “Terminal 2: The Plane is late”, after poems by Boris Hristov and documentary texts; 2013 “Between Holidays”, by Stefan Ivanov, workshop-performance; 2012   “Medea – My Mother”, by Ivan Dobchev and Stefan Ivanov, co-directed with Ivan Dobchev; 2011 Program Shakespeare: “The Winter’s Tale”; 2009 “OOOO - the Dream of Gogol”, after “Nevsky Prospect”, “Marriage”, “Ivan Fiodorovich Shponka and his Aunt” and “Diary of a Madman” by Gogol, co-directed with Ivan Dobchev; 2007 Program Strindberg “To Damascus: Dance of Death”; 2007 Program Strindberg “To Damascus: Julie, Jean and Kristine” (Frocken Julie); 2006 Program “Exit: Elabuga Station”, based on documents and lyrics of Marina Tzvetaeva, with choreographers Marco Canteluppo and Katarjina Gdaniek /Switzerland; 2004 Program Dostoevsky “The Valley of the Dead Shadow: Aliocha“, premiere at Théâtre de la Tempête, Paris, France; 2000 “The Black Fleece“, author’s performance, co-directed with Ivan Dobchev; 1998 Program “Myths”: Antygone the Mortal” after Euripides; 1997 Program “Archetypes: Apocrypha”, author’s performance, co-directed with Ivan Dobchev, premiere at Theatre de la Manufacture, Nancy, France; 1996   Program Chekhov: “Three Sisters”; 1995 Program Radichkov: “Mad Grass”; 1994   Program Yovkov: “The Sin Called Zlatil”; 1990 “P.S.”, after Chekhov, Sfumato; 1989 “We play Petruchevska”, after L. Petruchevska, Sfumato; 1989 “Seagull”, after Chekhov, co-directed with Ivan Dobchev.