About
Emona Stoykova is a NYC based set designer for theater, opera, 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 of storytelling.
Between Europe and the U.S.A., she’s collaborated with such renowned directors as Alexander Morfov, Robert Wilson, Dmitry Krymov, James Bundy, Galin Stoev, among others. She is a founding member of Krymov Lab NYC where she previously designed Metamorphoses (or A Few Ways of Keeping a Child from Running Around at His Great Uncle’s Funeral), Big Trip, Onegin. In Our Own Words and Americans: 2 Hems & 1/8 Eugene O’Neill (La MaMa). Other recent credits include Salome (Heartbeat Opera), An Enemy Of The People (Yale Repertory Theatre) {Outstanding Set Design Award Nomination - CT Critics Circle}; 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 Yale School of Drama, a BA in Scenography from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria and is a graduate of the National School of Fine Arts, Bulgaria.
She is a recipient of the Donald and Zorka Oenslager Fellowship Award in Design, the McDougal Scholarship and the Ray Klausen Scholarship. She was a featured artist at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial (USA Pavilion), and USITT 2019, and her work has been exhibited at the PQ in 2011 and 2015.