Gergana Dimitrova () is a
Bulgaria
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n theatre director, playwright and translator.
Biography
Gergana Dimitrova was born in 1975 in
Bourgas
Burgas (, ), 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 city in Bulgaria after Sofia, Plovdiv, and Varna, with a population of 280 000 ...
, graduated in Cultural Studies from the
University of Sofia
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" () is a public research university in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is the oldest institution of higher education in Bulgaria.
Founded on 1 October 1888, the edifice of the university was constructed between 1924 ...
(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''), located in the Mitte district of Berlin, Germany, was founded in 1951 as the National Theatre School in Berlin with the status of colleg ...
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 (1861–1945) was a German trade unionist, publisher, and anarcho-syndicalist. He was active in the Free Association of German Trade Unions (FVdG) and its successor organization, the Free Workers' Union of Germany. He edited the FVdG's ...
'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 is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, in the western part of the country. The city is built west of the Is ...
.
Awards and honours
She won "Ikar" award of the
Union of Bulgarian Artists in 2012 for best theatre play (for ''
P.O. Box Unabomber'' co-written with Zdrava Kamenova) and "Ikar" for best director the same year (for the performance ''
P.O. Box Unabomber'').
Information from Union of Bulgarian Artists' official website
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See also
* '' P.O. Box Unabomber''
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