Gergana Dimitrova ( bg, Гергана Димитрова) is
Bulgaria
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n theatre director, playwright and translator.
Biography
Gergana Dimitrova was born in 1975 in
Bourgas
Burgas ( bg, Бургас, ), sometimes transliterated as ''Bourgas'', is the second largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the region of Northern Thrace and the fourth-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia, Plovdiv, and Varna, with a popul ...
, graduated in Cultural Studies from the
University of Sofia
Sofia University, "St. Kliment Ohridski" at the University of Sofia, ( bg, Софийски университет „Св. Климент Охридски“, ''Sofijski universitet „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“'') is the oldest higher education i ...
(2000) and in Theatre Directing from
Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts
The Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts (German: ''Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch'', ''HFS''), based in the Niederschöneweide district of Berlin, Germany, was founded in 1951 as the National Theatre School in Berlin with the statu ...
in Berlin (2005) and the
National Academy of Theatre & Film in Sofia (2007).
Dimitrova is a member of the new wave of Bulgarian theatre which succeeded to the one which developed during the years after the end of the communist pro-Soviet regime in 1989.
Veneta Doytcheva, a Bulgarian theatre critic, writes about this new wave:—
Dimitrova with two other theatre directors,
Mladen Alexiev and
Vassilena Radeva, founded in 2007 "36 Singes", a NGO "for contemporary alternative art and culture". Each one of them keeps and expresses his personality in his own creations. As a triumvirate, they direct projects oriented towards the translation and promotion of new texts. Gergana Dimitrova is perhaps the only one among them who has directed on a big stage. Her creation of
Fritz Kater
Fritz Kater (12 December 1861 – 20 May 1945) was a German trade unionist active in the Free Association of German Trade Unions (FVdG) and its successor organization, the Free Workers' Union of Germany. He was the editor of the FVdG's organ ...
's ''Zeit zu lieben zeit zu sterben'' (''Time to Love Time to Die'') in the Varna Dramatic Theatre impresses of its richness of thought, precise theatre language and the capacity of synthesis that emerges from this expressive universe.
Dimitrova is one of the creators of the "
ProText" platform. It's a several-year program, devoted to research, promotion and the presentation of new plays, young writers and new aesthetics.
Dimitrova lives currently in
Sofia
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...
.
Awards and honours
She won "Ikar" award of the
Union of Bulgarian Artists
Union of Bulgarian Artists (UBA) is a non-profit association for Bulgarian artists which can trace its routes back to 1893. It currently has about 2700 members – artists and critics from all generations – drawn from the many fields of the repre ...
in 2012 for best theatre play (for ''
P.O. Box Unabomber
''P.O. Box Unabomber'' (alternative title ''Praehidno'') is a Bulgarian theatre play written by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova. The play won "Ikar" award of the Union of Bulgarian Artists in 2012 for Best Bulgarian play of the year.
Theme ...
'' co-written with Zdrava Kamenova) and "Ikar" for best director the same year (for the performance ''
P.O. Box Unabomber
''P.O. Box Unabomber'' (alternative title ''Praehidno'') is a Bulgarian theatre play written by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova. The play won "Ikar" award of the Union of Bulgarian Artists in 2012 for Best Bulgarian play of the year.
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See also
* ''P.O. Box Unabomber
''P.O. Box Unabomber'' (alternative title ''Praehidno'') is a Bulgarian theatre play written by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova. The play won "Ikar" award of the Union of Bulgarian Artists in 2012 for Best Bulgarian play of the year.
Theme ...
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References
External links
Interview with Gergana Dimitrova for World Theatre News
"36 monkeys" website
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1975 births
Living people
Bulgarian theatre directors
Bulgarian women theatre directors
Bulgarian translators
Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni
Bulgarian dramatists and playwrights
Bulgarian women dramatists and playwrights
Sofia University alumni