“An extraordinary performance written and directed by Anthony Nikolchev. This precisely choreographed, sonically impeccable, and intellectually sharp performance includes Dostoevsky's novella The Double, but goes far beyond it…All in all, an artistic, conceptual, (un)narrational work of rare competence.”
-Richard Schechner (Editor, TDR)
select works:
2025
The (Un)Double (co-creation Lukasz Przytarski; co-direction Gema Galiana; produced by the Useless Room)- premiere Biennale di Venezia (video)
Biennale Teatro 2025 talk with Anthony Nikolchev VIDEO
The (Un)Double - La MaMa ETC, New York
2022
child #2
2021
The Bacchae - California Institute of the Arts
2019
child #1
2018
The Last One (directed by Gema Galiana, produced by the Useless Room) - premiere Dance at the Odyssey, Los Angeles, CA
The Last One - International Theater Olympics, New Delhi, India
The Last One - Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Lustrum Award)
The Last One - Actor’s Gang, Los Angeles, CA
The Last One - Electric Lodge, Venice, CA
“The Last One takes on a multitude of complex themes and studies them with an intensely tender scrutiny. In an hour, we are taken on a journey through an existential crisis and which feels completed though not resolved. It is a show that truly packs a punch and one that is not to be missed."
2017
Anatomy of a Struggle (adapted from T. Williams’ Not About Nightingales) - California Institute of the Arts
2015
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited (co-direction Don Marcus; solo performance)- full run Shakespeare & Co. / Ark Theatre Co.
"It’s an elegantly told story by Fitzgerald and Ark has done a nearly perfect job in staging it in an hour. Anthony Nikolchev, who also co-adapted and co-directed it, turns in a bravura performance in something of a one-man show."
All The Things You Said You Never Said Before You Thought You Could Ever Say - full run Ovalhouse, London, UK
"…from laughter to pained silence in an instant."
-The Londonist
2013
Exile (in collaboration under choreography of Vivien Wood) - premiere DanceCity, Newcastle, UK (video)
Exile - UK tour
2012-2013
The Echoes Off The Walls Underground Are Louder Than Your Footsteps Above Me (solo performance) - premiere United Solo International Theater Festival, Theater Row, NYC (Best Actor award) (full performance video)
"this remarkable play—half physical performance, half haunting lyrical monologue—is an ode to the un(der)employed Millennial"
-NYTheatre.com
The Echoes Off The Walls Underground Are Louder Than Your Footsteps Above Me - Teatr Syrena United Solo Europe, Warsaw, Poland
The Echoes Off The Walls Underground Are Louder Than Your Footsteps Above Me - Grotowski Institute, Wroclaw, Poland
The Echoes Off The Walls Underground Are Louder Than Your Footsteps Above Me - central European tour (CZ, SK)
2009 - 2011
Look, What I Don’t Understand (solo performance)- premiere Athenaeum Theatre/XIII Pocket, Chicago, IL
Look, What I Don’t Understand - United Solo International Theater Festival, Theater Row, NYC (Best Actor award)
Look, What I Don’t Understand - Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Los Angeles, CA
Look, What I Don’t Understand - European tour (ArmMono Festival, Armenia; WROSTJA Festival, Poland; SOLO Festival, Moscow, Russia)
“Nikolchev inhabits a swath of characters, accents and attitudes with a technique and honesty that constitutes a tour de force.”
