I am an award winning multi-hyphenate theater maker whose various hats include director, scenographer, experience designer, professor, playwright and artistic director.

Raised in Moscow in an intercultural household with a Ukrainian mother and Georgian father, I create work that grapples with social issues, exploring identity, displacement, and belonging. Since 2000, I’ve created over two dozen performances spanning interdisciplinary downtown theatre, large-scale parades, opera, and site-responsive installations. My work has been shown at Times Square, Tokyo Disney, BAM, Prague National Theatre, the NY Philharmonic, the XXI Commonwealth Games, and Barbican Center.

Currently, my work centers on two primary forms: site-specific performances and socially engaged projects with community members to address issues like immigration, polarization, conflict, and peacebuilding.

Relentless in my ambition and risk-taking, I push the boundaries of theatre to create work that is both artistically daring and socially urgent. I launched SpaceBridge, a theatre workshop and devised performance uniting 19 refugee and American children—most of whom had never been on stage. Leading a team of 60 collaborators, I transformed their stories into a fully realized Off-Broadway production. After being named a critics’ pick at the 2025 Under The Radar Festival, I am expanding its workshop curriculum to develop new SpaceBridge performances with local and refugee youth in the U.S. and globally.

I am the founder of Visual Echo, a New York-based performance organization fostering generative dialogues among people from diverse backgrounds who rarely intersect.

I am an associate professor at the New School of Drama, where I co-developed a new MFA program in Contemporary Theatre and Performance. I am a La MaMa resident artist and recipient of the 2024 Joan D. Firestone Fund Award and the 2024 Elliot Norton Award.