Theatre
Theatre Will Not Prepare You For Death - 2024
Actor (Peter). An experimental theater piece based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, exploring themes of loss, transformation, and the quiet strength rooted in family and heritage. Written by Nika Velt, directed by Olga Lvoff and Elena Che. Premiered at La MaMa, New York.
https://theatrewillnotprepareyoufordeath.com/
A Midsummer Night's Dream - 2025
Actor (Snug). The Drilling Company's Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, 30th season. Directed by Hamilton Clancy.
FILM
White Nights - 2025
Actor (Fyodor Mikhailovich) and scriptwriter for embedded film audio track. Short film directed by Elizaveta Dyachkova.
White Nights - 2025
Actor (Fyodor Mikhailovich) and scriptwriter for embedded film audio track. Short film directed by Elizaveta Dyachkova.
MY WORK IN DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING
AND JOURNALISM
Documentary Filmmaking
Work as a scriptwriter / grant writer / story consultant at
Diplodocus Films
Train of Eternity - premiering at Oaxaca FilmFest 2019
Story consultant on Olga Lvoff's essay film, about her Trans-Siberian journey across Russia.
Busy Inside - 2019
Scriptwriter and grant writer on the Busy Inside project about people with Dissociative Identity Disorder. The film premiered at the 41st Moscow International Film Festival, after which it ran in 28 movie theaters in Russia. The film won the Audience Award for Best Feature at its U.S. premiere at the 5th Annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival.
When People Die They Sing Songs - 2014
Scriptwriter and grant writer on the award-winning (incl. Student Oscar Nomination) full-length film When People Die They Sing Songs, the participant of DOC NYC and other documentary film festivals, selected for the Visual Center at Yad Vashem, and aired on Japanese national television.
Two Travelers - 2012
Scriptwriter on the award-winning film.
There Lived the Bookish Children - 2010
Production coordination on the award-winning film There Lived the Bookish Children.
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E-Team - 2014
Russian-English translator on the award-winning feature film E-Team. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival, theatrically released all over the U.S.
Journalism
Voice of America, Russian Service, Moscow Bureau, 2009-2011
Stringer covering political and cultural news.
Voice of America, Russian Service, Moscow Bureau, 2009-2011
Stringer covering political and cultural news.