Veselka Kuncheva - Puppets lab

PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

2026

Director of the show “Love As A Summer”, a production of “Lindy Hop” Bulgaria.

2025

Director and co-dramaturge of “Invisible Child” based on the music of the group P.I.F., production of the “Racho Stoyanov” Theater in Gabrovo and the Stara Zagora State Puppet Theater;

Director of the musical “Hair” at the Plovdiv State Opera.

2024

Director and co-dramaturge (together with Polina Hristova) of the play “The Little Prince” based on the work of Antoine Exupery at the Nikolay Binev Youth Theater;

Head of the “Rootless” laboratory, production of the Stara Zagora Puppet Theater;

Head of a creative laboratory on Jacques Prévert’s poems at the Puppet Theater – Ruse;

Director and co-dramaturge (together with Polina Hristova) of the play “The Picture of Dorian Gray” based on the work of Oscar Wilde at the “Racho Stoyanov” Theater.

2023

Head of an experimental workshop for new digital technologies in the performing arts “Infinity” at the Plovdiv Opera;

Head of the laboratory “To Lose Yourself”, production of the “Racho Stoyanov” Theater Company;

Director and co-dramaturge (together with Polina Hristova) of the play “The Metamorphosis” based on the work of Franz Kafka at the Nikola Vaptsarov Theater.

2022

Director and playwright of the play “Don Quixote” based on the novel of the same name by Miguel Cervantes at the Nikolay Binev Youth Theater;

Head of the laboratory “The Poets of Stara Zagora” production of the Stara Zagora Puppet Theater;

Head of the creative laboratory “Invisible Child” with the special participation of the group “Pif” Workshop of AKT – UNIMA;

Director of the play “Flight of the Mole” by Polina Hristova;

Master class leader at Dimitri Academy, Switzerland.

2021

Head of the creative laboratory “Loneliness in the modern man/world” of AKT-UNIMA, Bulgaria at the State Puppet Theatre Stara Zagora;

Director and playwright of the play “Burnout” at the Stara Zagora State Puppet Theatre;

Director of the videos “Pandemic jailhouse rock” and “We stay”.

2020

Head of the creative laboratory “Master and Margarita” at the Stara Zagora State Puppet Theater;

Director of the rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar”. By Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Plovdiv State Opera.

2019

Director and playwright of the play “The Last Man” based on George Orwell’s novel “1984”, State Puppet Theatre Stara Zagora;

Director of the tango opera “Maria from Buenos Aires” by Astor Piazzolla at Opera Plovdiv.

2018

Head of the International Director’s Master Class “Metamorphoses”, Magdeburg, Germany;

Head of the international creative laboratory “Animal Farm” at the Stara Zagora State Puppet Theatre with the participation of students from Pace School, New York, USA;

Head of the creative laboratory “1984” at the Stara Zagora State Puppet Theater;

Director and co-dramaturge (Ina Bozhidarova) of the play “The Nose”, Theater 199 “Valentin Stoychev”.

2017

Director and co-dramaturge (together with Ina Bozhidarova) of the play “Life as a Rage” based on the novel “Demons” by F.M. Dostoevsky at the Stara Zagora State Puppet Theatre;

Director and screenwriter of the video clip “I, Charleston”.

2016

Director and co-dramaturge (together with Ina Bozhidarova) of the play “The Last Temptation” based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis at the Ivan Vazov National Theater;

Head of the ninth international creative laboratory “Against Yourself” at the Stara Zagora State Puppet Theatre;

Director and co-dramaturge (together with Ina Bozhidarova) of the play “The Queen of Spades” based on the work of Alexander Pushkin at the State Puppet Theater – Plovdiv.

2015

Director and playwright of the play “Escapes” at the Azarian Theater.

2014

Director and co-dramaturge (together with Ina Bozhidarova) of the play “Momo” based on the novel of the same name by Michael Ende at the Nikolay Binev Youth Theater;

Director and co-dramaturge (together with Ina Bozhidarova) of the play “Fear” at the Stara Zagora State Puppet Theatre;

Head of the eighth international creative laboratory “Fear” at the Stara Zagora State Puppet Theatre.

2013

Director and playwright of the puppet monoplay “I Sisyphus”. Independent project of the theatre company “Puppets Lab”.

2012

Director of the short film “Mona Lisa”;

Director and playwright of the play “Immured” at the State Puppet Theater – Plovdiv;

Director and co-dramaturge (together with Ina Bozhidarova) of the puppet performance “Breath” at the Youth Theater, Subotica, Serbia.

2011

Director and co-dramaturge (together with Ina Bozhidarova) of the puppet musical “On the Edge of the Sky” at the State Puppet Theater – Plovdiv.

2010

Director of the short film “Tzvetanka”;

Director and screenwriter of the video clip of the song “Definitely Song” by the band Nasekomix;

Director of the play “Yours Forever” – independent production, Sofia.

2009

Director of the puppet performance “In the Dark” at the Youth Theater, Subotica, Serbia.

2008

Screenwriter and director of the short film “Reflections”;

Second assistant director in the film “Goat”, directed by Prof. Georgi Dyulgerov;

Director of the performance “The Big Quixotic Jungle” at the Sofia Puppet Theater.

2007

Director of the puppet performance “Lady Fantasy” at the State Puppet Theatre Vidin;

Director of the multimedia performance “Behind the Curtain” by the Bluba Lu group at the Youth Theater, Sofia;

Director and screenwriter of a music video for the song “Hold back” by the band Bluba Lu;

Director of a concert by the band Bluba Lu at the Bulgarian National Radio, Sofia.

2006

Director of the puppet performance, “Dreams” at the State Puppet Theatre Vidin;

Director of the puppet performance “Marko Kraljevici” at the Youth Theater – Kragujevac, Serbia;

Director of the puppet performance “The Most Beautiful Flower” at the Vidin State Puppet Theatre;

Director of the puppet performance “Pinocchio Forbidden for Children” at the Sofia P|uppet Theatre.

2005

Director of the puppet performance “Carlson” at the State Puppet Theatre Vidin;

Director of the puppet performance “Grandma’s Tales” at the State Puppet Theatre Vidin.

2003

Director of the television show “To Win in Sixty Seconds” on “Seven Days” TV;

Director of the performance “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” at the State Puppet Theatre Vidin.

2002

Director of two show programs for the company “Vision” at the National Palace of Culture;

Director of the play “Little Tsakhes called Zinnobar” at the State Puppet Theatre Plovdiv.

2000

Director of “The Most Beautiful Flower”.

1998

Director of a physical theatre performance, at the Youth Center – Pleven, “Dead Voices”.

1996

Director of the show – revue “The Ghost of the Drug Addict” at the “Ivan Radoev” Theater – Pleven.

PROFFESIONAL POSITIONS

2022 – present

Director, Drama Theatre Gabrovo

2022 – present

Director, Opera Plovdiv

2014 – present

Founder & Managing Director of Puppets Lab theatre company

2017 – 2018

Director, National Theatre “Ivan Vazov” Sofia, Bulgaria

2010 – 2011

Screenwriter, Nashentsi (TV7)

2008 – 2009

Screenwriter, Talking Heads Puppet Show (TV7)

2003 – 2007

Director, State Puppet Theatre Vidin

EDUCATION

2007-2009

Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA), Sofia

Subject: Film and Television Directing

Two-year postgraduate specialization

1996 – 2001

Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA), Sofia

Subject: Puppet Theatre Directing

Degree: Masters

1995 – 1997

Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA), Veliko Tarnovo Branch

Subject: Theatre Direction for Fashion and Advertising