Yoanna Kolusheva
Productions whilst at RADA
- Maria
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare for Young Audiences 2025) directed by Abigail Graham - Anna
The Government Inspector (course project) directed by Sinéad Rushe - Mary / Charlene
Short Stories: What's in Alaska? / How to be An Other Woman (course project) directed by Yael Shavit - Chorus
Antigone (course project) directed by Beru Tessema
- Annabella
'Tis Pity She's a Whore (course project) directed by Sinéad Rushe - Irina Arkadina
The Seagull (course project) directed by Yael Shavit - Laura
American Scene Study: The Glass Menagerie (course project) directed by Anastasia Velikorodnaya
Special skills
Accents and dialects: French, Leeds, General American, RP, Spanish, Derry
Stage combat: BASSC Armed, Unarmed (distinction)
Singing: mezzo-soprano
Dance: swing: lindy hop, Charleston, balboa (advanced); blues (advanced); ballet (advanced); jazz; flamenco; street dance; R&B; tango; salsa; period; Bulgarian traditional dance (advanced)
Languages: Bulgarian (native), French (advanced)
Other: horse riding (intermediate), swimming (advanced), basketball (intermediate), badminton (intermediate), ping pong (intermediate), bicycle (intermediate), ice-skating (intermediate), roller skating (beginner), skiing (beginner), wind surf (beginner), climbing (intermediate)
Previous experience
Theatre
Puck, Hermia, Peter Quince and Tom Snout, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, dir. Alexandre Berovski (Youth Theatre Studiyata)
Laura, Between Worlds, dir. Alexandre Berovski (Youth Theatre Studiyata)
Anna, The Cherry Orchard, dir. Alexandre Berovski (Youth Theatre Studiyata)
The King’s Sister, Mirabella, dir. Alexandre Berovski (Youth Theatre Studiyata)
Thetis, The Illiad, dir. Lora Mutisheva (NATFIZ (National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts)
Short film
All Too Human, dir. Ralitsa Stavreva
Training
First year at drama school NATFIZ (National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts, Bulgaria)
Foundation Course at ArtsEd