Chronology of past work
(:)2017: Co-director with Gema Galiana: Frankenstein by Nick Dear: Cockroach Theater Company (Las Vegas, NV)
(:)2017: Cannes Lions Festival: workshop performer with Wilderness (dir. Annie Saunders) and HeLo Productions (Cannes, France)
(:)2017: Lead Actor: Through Fire She Calls (film, short): Dir. Jason Georgiades
(:)2017: Director, Anatomy of a Struggle (adapted from "Not About Nightingales" by Tennessee Williams, Nobody by Marc Lamont Hill and Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil by Inga Muscio): workshop production at California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA).
(:)2017: Performer, The Tragedy of Carmen (directed by Alexander Gedeon, adaptation by Peter Brook): San Diego Opera, CA
(:)2017: Director and performer: Past Hope Now: John Isaac Watters three-part music film featured on Boooooom TV!, FStoppers, A&R Factory, cinematic premiere Edmonton International Film Festival
(:)2017: Performer, The Last One (directed by Gema Galiana): Galiana&Nikolchev's Useless Room at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and Electric Lodge (Los Angeles, CA)
(:)2016: Performer, The Day Shall Declare It (directed by Annie Saunders and Sophie Bortolussi): Wilderness in LA Arts District, sold-out extension (Los Angeles, CA)
(:)2016: Director, writer, performer: Past Hope Now a tryptic narrative music film with John Isaac Watters (Wonder Valley, CA)
(:)2015: Performer, co-creator: Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald: Ark Theater Company, Shakespeare & Co. (Lenox, MA)
(:)2015: Lead Actor: Intento de Escapada (film, feature, experimental): Dir. Joaquin Regadera (Spain)
(:)2015: Performer, co-creator: All The Things You Said You Never Said Before You Thought You Could Ever Say: Ovalhouse Theatre (London, UK)
(:)2015: Performer, co-creator: All The Things You Said You Never Said Before You Thought You Could Ever Say: Bharat Rang Mahotsav National Theatre Festival (New Delhi, India)
(:)2014: Supporting Actor: All These Voices (film, short, Student Academy Award winner, Best Alternative Narrative): Dir. David Henry Gerson, choreography Celia Rowslon-Hall: AFI (Los Angeles, CA)
(:)2014: Published: Searching For Something a Little Visionary: Anthony Nikolchev Interviews Matej Matejka, Director of Studio Matejka: Mime Journal (Claremont, CA)
(:)2014: Performer, co[creator: All The Things You Said You Never Said Before You Thought You Could Ever Say: Switzerland and Slovakia Tour
(:)2014: Lead Actor: Dead Flowers (film, short): Dirs. Pablo Riquelme, Stephen R. Scott (Spain
**Best Actor 2017 Bloody Navidad Film Festival (Alicante, Spain)
**Best Actor Feb. 2017 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards (Los Angeles, CA)
(:)2014: Performer, co-creator: All The Things You Said You Never Said Before You Thought You Could Ever Say: Dance City (Newcastle, UK)
(:)2014: Performer, creator: The Echoes off the Walls Underground are Louder Than Your Footsteps Above Me: Czech Republic and Slovakia Tour
(:)2014: Performer: The Day Shall Declare It (directed by Annie Saunders and Sophie Bortolussi): Wilderness at Marylebone Gardens (London, UK)
(:)2013: Supporting Actor: Like Lambs (film, feature): Dir. Ted Marcus: Prospekt (USA)
(:)2013: Performer, creator: The Echoes off the Walls Underground are Louder than Your Footsteps Above Me: United SOLO Europe, Teatr Syrena (Warsaw, Poland)
(:)2013: Performer, writer: Exile (directed by Vivien Wood): Dance City (Newcastle, UK)
(:)2013: Performer, creator: The Echoes off the Walls Underground are Louder than Your Footsteps Above Me: Grotowski Institute, Sala Laboratorium and Mleczarnia Underground Bar (Wroclaw, Poland)
(:)2012: Published: The Echoes off the Walls Underground are Louder than Your Footsteps Above Me: Indie Theater Now (New York City, NY)
(:)2012: Performer, creator: The Echoes off the Walls Underground are Louder than Your Footsteps Above Me: Studio Matejka, United SOLO International Theater Festival (Theatre ROW, New York City, NY)*
*2012 recipient for Best Actor out of 100 total shows
(:)2012: Actor, writer: Pearadise (film, short): Studio Matejka, Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA)**
**2012 recipient for Best Actor at LAUIFF
**2012 recipient for Best Foreign Film at LAUIFF
(:)2012: Published: Look, What I Don't Understand: Indie Theater Now (New York City, NY)
(:)2011: Performer, creator: Look, What I Don't Understand: United SOLO International Theater Festival (Theatre ROW, New York City, NY)*
*2011 recipient for Best Actor out of 77 total shows
(:)2010-2013: Founding member, performer: Studio Matejka Physical Theatre Ensemble: Grotowski Institute (Wroclaw, Poland)
(:)2010: Writer, director: Put Your Arms Around Me: Wroclaw National Puppet Theatre, supported by TCG Travel Grant (Wroclaw, Poland)
(:)2010: Published: The World as a Place-writings on the 2009 Grotowski Year Festival: St. Petersburg Theatre Journal (St. Petersburg, Russia)
(:)2010: Visiting Artist Lecture: And Not Psychological Realism Either: Maintaining Autonomy Through Truth on Stage: Smolny University (St. Petersburg, Russia)
(:)2010: Performer, creator: Dual Citizens (solo performance double bill, with Look, What I Don't Understand): Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (Los Angeles, CA)
(:)2009: Performer, creator: Look, What I Don't Understand: WROSTJA Wroclaw Meeting of One Actor Theatre Festival, support by MidAtlantic USArtists International Grant (Wroclaw and Torun, Poland)
(:)2009: Performer, creator: Look, What I Don't Understand: SOLO International Theater Festival (Moscow, Russia)
(:)2009: Performer, creator: Look, What I Don't Understand: ArmMono International Theater Festival (Yerevan, Armenia)
(:)2009: Performer, creator: Look, What I Don't Understand: Atheneum Theater/XIII Pocket (Chicago, IL)
(:)2008: B.A. Wesleyan University, dual major: Theater and Science in Society (Bioethics)