/ world today news/ Director Alexander Morfov is the new director of the Ivan Vazov National Theater.
By order of the Minister of Culture, Vezhdi Rashidov, Alexander Morfov will lead the academic troupe until the announcement and holding of a competition for the position of “director” of the “Ivan Vazov” NT, reported MK.
The new appointment is necessary because the previous director of the National Theater, Pavel Vasev, is retiring. He held this post since 2009. After that, the long-time director of the Plovdiv Drama Theater “N.O. Masalitinov” – the actor, screenwriter and director Emil Bonev, appointed acting director of the National Theater, thanked for the invitation and announced that he would not be able to take up the post.
We remind you that on December 5, 2014, the troupe of the National Theater announced a protest against the election of Slavi Binev as the chairman of the Committee on Culture and Media in the National Assembly. The entire creative guild went out in protest at that time, and the violent dissatisfaction with the state’s attitude towards culture was extremely strongly expressed by actors, directors, musicians, writers, artists, etc.
In protest, director Alexander Morfov left the National Theater. “Slavi Binev will manage culture and the minister of culture is Vezhdi Rashidov – I am against this state administration, against this parliament, against the prime minister, against the minister of culture, against the chairman of the culture commission. I don’t think I should stay at all in a state-owned enterprise,” Morfov told BGNES at the time. A few days later, on December 8, Binev resigned.
Alexander Morfov was born in 1960 in Yambol. He graduated from NATFIZ “Kr. Sarafov” specialty “Directing for puppet theater”, class of 1990, under Prof. Yulia Ognyanova; as well as the specialty “Filmmaking”, class of 1994, under Prof. Georgi Dyulgerov.
His creative work includes: 1993-2000 – director at the Ivan Vazov Theater; 2000-2001 – director and artistic director of “Ivan Vazov” Theater; 2001-2006 – chief director of the St. Petersburg Theater “Vera Komissarzhevskaya”. Director in Moscow at the theater “Et cetera” (of the famous Russian artist Alexander Kalyagin); Director at the Moscow theater “Lenkom”; 2005 – worked in the USA together with Mikhail Baryshnikov on the theater project “Doctor and Patient” by Rezo Gabriadze; Since 2009 – chief director of the TV channel “Ivan Vazov”.
Theater productions: “King Jubilee” by Alfred Jarry, Small City Theater “Behind the Canal”, 1991; “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare, Sofia Theater, 1992; “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, La Strada Theater; “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare, NT “Ivan Vazov”; “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes, NT “Ivan Vazov”; “Magic Night” based on texts by Samuel Beckett, Slawomir Mrozek and Eugene Ionesco, NT “Ivan Vazov”; “At the bottom” by Maxim Gorky, NT “Ivan Vazov”; “Decameron or Blood and Passion by Boccaccio” by Giovanni Boccaccio, NT “Ivan Vazov”; “Hashes” by Ivan Vazov, NT “Ivan Vazov”; “Don Juan” by Moliere, NT “Ivan Vazov”; “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kissey, NT “Ivan Vazov”; “Life is wonderful” by Nikolay Erdman, NT “Ivan Vazov”; “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare, St. Petersburg Theater “Vera Komissarzhevskaya”; “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes, “Et cetera” theater – Moscow; “King Yubu” by Alfred Jarry, “Et cetera” theater – Moscow; “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kissey, starring Alexander Abdulov, Moscow Lenkom Theater; “The Old Lady’s Visit” by Friedrich Dürenmatt, starring Maria Mironova, Moscow Lenkom Theater
Productions in France, Sweden, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Latvia and Israel.
There are tours in Morocco, Romania, Ukraine, Poland, Austria, Macedonia, Turkey, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Spain, Italy, Germany, Holland.
Theater festivals in Vienna, Casablanca, Kiev, Torun (Poland), Ohrid, Belgrade (BITEF), Wroclaw, Nitra, Hamburg, Moscow (NET, “Golden Mask”), Utrecht, etc.
Among the films are “Blueberry Hill”, director and screenwriter; “Ivan and Alexandra”, actor; “The Love Summer of a Lochman”, actor; “Cheese Sunday”, actor; “The Goat’s Horn”, actor; “Friends of Emilia”, actor; “Journey to Jerusalem”, actor.
Television films: “Hashes”, TV series, director and screenwriter.
Awards and nominations: Holder of the order “Cyril and Methodius” first degree for “exceptional services to the Republic of Bulgaria in the field of culture and art”; Awards and nominations “ASKEER”, “IKAR” and the award of the city of Sofia for almost all his performances. Over 20 international and the most prestigious Russian theater awards (“GOLDEN MASK”, “THE SEAGULL”, “GOLDEN SOFFIT”, “CRYSTAL TURANDOT”, “NAIL OF THE SEASON”, etc.); Doctor Honoris Causa of the ESRA University of Audio-Visual Arts; “Burya” – theater “V. Komisarzhevska”, St. Petersburg; “Prima Donna” – Gesher Theater, Tel Aviv; “Finita la comedia” – Dailes teatris, Riga.
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