UPCOMING :
Onegin. In Our Own Words - dir. D. Krymov, Under The Radar Festival
The Funeral (work title) - dir. D. Krymov, La MaMa
Another Mother - dir. Emma Sandall, dance
Serena - dir. E. Dinkova, J.Rasmussen, short film
Noël - dir. Joshua Toro, short film, NY
About
Emona Stoykova is a NYC based set designer for theater, film and live performance, with a special interest in new plays and adaptations. Her work is focused on empathy, collaboration and seeking experimental and non-traditional approaches of storytelling.
She holds an MFA in Set Design from Yale School of Drama (under Ming Cho Lee), a BA in Scenography from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria and is a graduate of the National School of Fine Arts, Bulgaria.
In Europe she’s collaborated with such storied directors as Alexander Morfov, Robert Wilson, Galin Stoev, among others.
She’s a founding member of Krymov Lab NYC with dir. Dmitry Krymov: Big Trip, Onegin. In Our Own Words and Americans: 2 Hems & 1/8 Eugene O’Neill (La MaMa). Other recent American credits include An Enemy Of The People (Yale Repertory Theatre) {Outstanding Set Design Award Nomination - CT Critics Circle}; We are P.R. (Behmer Theatre); The Gold Room (HERE); She Talks to Beethoven, A Number, Girlfriend and The Seventeenth Chapel (A.R.T/NY Theatres); Coop (Paradise Factory); Ella in the Tundra (The Signature Theatre); Dead Man’s Cell Phone and Nothing is the End of the World (Stella Adler Studio); Old Friends That Just Met (Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute); The Hour of Great Mercy and Bulgaria! Revolt! (Yale Iseman Theatre).
Emona is a recipient of the Donald and Zorka Oenslager Fellowship Award in Design 2018, the McDougal Scholarship and the Ray Klausen Scholarship. Her work was exhibited in the 2011 and 2015 Prague Quadrennials and was featured at the USA Pavilion of PQ 2019 and at USITT 2019