Ivaylo Stoyanov ( bg, Ивайло Стоянов) (born 15 October 1969), better known as Marius Kurkinski (Мариус Куркински), is a

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n actor, director, film writer and pop singer. He wrote, directed and starred in the 1996 Bulgarian film ''Dnevnikat Na Edin Lud'' (''The Diary of a Madman''). Kurkinski has built a reputation both in Bulgaria and abroad for his one-man shows such as "The Lady with the Dog” and "The Lone Man". He won the award Europe's Actor in the International Monodrama Festival in

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for his performance of "The Dream" by

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in 2003. Later that year, he won the Apolonia Award at the Apollonia Festival held in

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, Bulgaria. In honour of the awards, he was invited to participate in

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on March 27, 2004 held in Paris, France. He is openly gay.https://www.24chasa.bg/Article/1162866 (Bulgarian text)

Filmography

* ''Sirna Nedelya'' ( ''A Day of Forgiveness'' 1993) * ''La Donna e Mobile'' (1993) * ''Granitza'' (a.k.a. ''The Border'' 1994) * ''Dnevnikat Na Edin Lud'' (a.k.a. ''Diary of a Madman'' 1996) * ''Pryatelite na Emiliya'' (a.k.a. ''Emilia's Friends'' 1996) * ''Vsichko Ot Nula'' (a.k.a. ''Starting From the Scratch'' 1996) * ''Ad Libitum 4 Variatzii Na Graf dyo Burbulon'' (a.k.a. ''Ad Libitum: Variations of Count de Bourboulon'' 2000) * ''Posseteni ot Gosspoda'' (a.k.a. ''Meme Dieu est venu nous voir'' released in Bulgaria 2001 and in France 2003) * ''Opashkata na Dyavola'' (a.k.a. ''Devil's Tail'' 2001) * ''Zasukan Sviat'' (a.k.a. ''A Twisted World'' 2019)

References

External links

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Story on winning of Europe award

Sofia News Agency Report about his participation in World Theatre Day in Paris

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1969 births Living people Bulgarian male film actors Bulgarian male stage actors Bulgarian gay actors Bulgarian gay musicians LGBT theatre directors Bulgarian LGBT singers Gay singers LGBT Christians Bulgarian theatre directors Bulgarian pop singers 20th-century Bulgarian male singers People from Novi Pazar, Bulgaria {{Bulgaria-singer-stub