- Performing and touring in Vivien Wood's (DV8, Michael Clark) new performance, The Exile Project, through the UK (Newcastle, Durham Cathedral, British Library in London)
- Cast in a supporting role in Ted Marcus's upcoming feature film LIKE LAMBS for The Prospekt Group
- Artist-in-Residence at CalArts University with Studio Matejka member Gema Galiana and director Matej Matejka, April 2013
- Awarded BEST ACTOR at the 2012 United Solo Theatre Festival, out of 100 shows in NYC for The Echoes....
- The reviews are in: "REMARKABLE...BREATHLESS...ASTONISHING.... Nikolchev's talent as actor and writer is FORMIDABLE" - Martin Denton for NyTheatre.com
- New performance at NYC's 2012 UNITED SOLO international theatre festival invited as an encore from last year's award. View PRESS RELEASE
- AWARDED BEST ACTOR for the short film "PEARADISE" (BEST ACTOR and BEST FOREIGN FILM) at the 2012 Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival
- PUBLISHED script for "Look, What I Don't Understand," on www.indietheaternow.com
- AWARDED BEST ACTOR at the 2011 UNITED SOLO international theater festival
- November 11, 2011. Performed, award-winning, internationally touring, original solo performance, "Look, What I Don't Understand," at the UNITED SOLO international theater festival: Theater ROW, West 42nd St., NYC. Click for PRESS RELEASE
- In residence at the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, Poland. Working with the Studio Matejka in an intensive physical theatre development process. Work to be shown April 2011 at the Grotowski Insitute.
- Awarded US Artists International Grant by the Mid Atalantic Arts Foundation
