Anthony

Nikolchev grew up in California’s Bay Area and holds a dual degree in Theater and Bioethics from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He's an actor and writer for theater and film. He spent his first professional year on Chicago stages and producing his first one-man show, “Look, What I Don’t Understand.” Taking the momentum of a cold January run in Chicago and an international tour of “Look...” through the post-communist countries of Russia (Moscow), Armenia and Poland (basically Chicago), Anthony decided to further hone his acting living and working amongst the ghosts of European theatre. Supported by artist grants and pickled herring, he joined the Studio Matejka, training and performing for three years at the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, while enjoying a transatlantic career split in Los Angeles. He has since created several award-winning solo shows as actor and/or writer, touring NYC, LA and Europe.

Anthony now acts and writes in the US, the UK and the European continent on stage and film, and leads physical training for the performer at universities (CalArts, Wesleyan University, Warsaw Theatre Academy) and for professionals (Teatr Syrena: Warsaw, Dance City: Newcastle, Centro Parraga: Spain, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble: Los Angeles). Along with performer and artist Gema Galiana, he runs the Theatre of No Theoretical Necessity, in which they create live performances, film, photography and multi-media projects. Anthony is a movement consultant for film and theater, an adjunct professor of movement at the CalArts School of Theater, and a nonhuman ape aficionado. He works; he tries; he likes to believe that somehow acting chips away at those walls built by the hopeless misconception that anything is actually as it seems.