Emona Stoykova
Emona is a scenic designer for theater, film, and live performance, with a special interest in new plays and adaptations. Her work is focused on empathy, collaboration, and seeking experimental and non-traditional approaches to storytelling.
In Europe, she has collaborated with such renowned directors as Robert Wilson, Alexander Morfov, Galin Stoev, among others. She is the Production Designer of Krymov Lab NYC, where she previously designed Big Trip, Onegin, In Our Own Words, Americans: 2 Hems & 1/8 Eugene O’Neill, and Metamorphoses (La MaMa). Other recent American credits include: Salome (Heartbeat Opera), An Enemy Of The People (Yale Repertory Theatre) [Outstanding Set Design Nomination]; We are P.R. (Behmer Theatre); The Gold Room (HERE); She Talks to Beethoven, A Number, Girlfriend, and The Seventeenth Chapel (A.R.T/NY Theatres); Coop (Paradise Factory); Ella in the Tundra (The Signature Theatre).
Emona holds an MFA in Set Design from the Yale School of Drama, a BA in Scenography from the National Academy of Arts, Bulgaria, and is a graduate of the National School of Fine Arts, Bulgaria. She is a recipient of the Oenslager Fellowship Award in Design, was a featured artist at the Prague Quadrennial in 2019, and USITT 2019, and has had her work exhibited at the PQ (2011, 2015).