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)

 

The Day Shall Declare It
Look, What I Don't Understand
United Solo Europe
Iconostasis
Pearadise
The Day Shall Declare It
The Day Shall Declare It
Past Hope Now
The Echoes Off The Walls Underground
The Echoes Off The Walls Underground
Iconostasis
Galiana & Nikolchev Physical Theatre
All The Things You Said You Never Said
The Echoes Off The Walls Underground
Babylon Revisited
Babylon Revisited