Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska

 
Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska
 

Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska

 
Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska was born on 23.01.1980 in Skopje. She graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts - Skopje, Department of Dramaturgy, in the class of Prof. Rusomir Bogdanovski. She received her MA from the Institute of National History in 2009, with the thesis "The Plays of Dimitar Molerov in the Historical Context" under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Michel Pavlovski. Since 2014 she has been working as a playwright at the Macedonian National Theatre.

 Dramatic texts

  • "The Children" (2016);
  • "Personal Angelina" (2015);
  • "The Sons of Joarel. The Reign of the Three-Headed Dragon Zer" (2013);
  • "Sweets" (2010);
  • "Kosara" (2009);
  • "Anarchists" (2008);
  • "Sin" (2008);
  • "Flight in Three Heads" (2007);
  • "Shots" (2006);
  • "Shoes of Steel" (2005);
  • "Taste of Dracula" (2005).    

 Novels

  • "The Solitude of Mona M." (2020);
  • "Giuliano Ponti" (2012).

 Translations

  • "Life is Beautiful" (2016), adaptation by Aleksandr Morfov (based on "The Suicide" by Nikolai Erdman;
  • "Tiresia's Lie" (2011), author: Ljubomir Đurković;
  • "Cassandra, a cliché" (2011), author: Ljubomir Đurković;
  • "The Upside Down Neighborhood" (2007), author: Nina Mitrović;
  • "Vaginal Monologues" (2001), author: Yves Ensler.

 Theater performances

  • "Pure Heroine" (2018), (based on "Personal Angelina"), author: Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska, director: Gjorgji Rizeski, co-production: Center for Education, Culture and Arts Danail Stanojeski", Public Room;
  • "The Fifth Act" (2018), director: Nick Apper, playwright: Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska, production: Anton Panov Theater - Strumica;
  • "Cage" (2018), author and director: Irma Baseska – Ristovska, playwright: Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska, production: Center for Education, Culture and Arts "Danail Stanojeski";
  • "Life is Beautiful" (2016), director: Aleksandar Morfov, playwright: Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska, production: Macedonian National Theatre – Skopje;
  • "Chicago" (2015), director: Natasha Poplavska, playwright: Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska, production: Macedonian National Theatre – Skopje;
  • "Kosara" (2013), author and director: Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska, independent project, co-production with the Macedonian Opera and Ballet;
  • "Vladimir and Kosara" (2010), author: Zagorka Pop-Antoska, director: Slobodan Milatović, co-production: Skopje Summer and Bar Chronicle;
  • "Cassandra, Clichés" (2009), author: Ljubomir Đurković, director: Slobodan Milatović, playwright: Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska, co-production: Teuta-Kotor, Exponto-Ljubljana, Infant Belgrade, MOT Skopje, Serbian National Theatre – Novi Sad;
  • "Souls" (2010), premiere, author and director: Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska, independent project, co-production with: NUCK "Trajko Prokopiev" - Kumanovo;
  • "Flight in Three Heads" (2009), premiere, author: Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska, director: Nikola Ristov, production: Macedonian National Theatre – Skopje;
  • "Neighborhood Upside Down" (2007), director: Neni Del Mestre, playwright: Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska, production: Drama Theater - Skopje.

 Scenarios

  • Childhood Trilogy (2019), screenwriter and director: Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska, Center for Education, Culture and Art "Danail Stanojeski";
  • Documentary film (2005) "Shadows of the Soul. A Story of Stojan Konev and the City", director: Rusomir Bogdanovski, screenwriters: Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska and Rusomir Bogdanovski;
  • Documentary film "Adam and Eve" (2004), director: Gjorche Stavreski, screenwriter: Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska, production AudioLab;
  • TV Series "Zoki Poki" (2003), director: Aleksandar Iliev, screenwriter: Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska, production AudioLab.

 Awards and recognitions

  • "Personal Angelina" – Prize-winning work of the "Competition for the purchase of drama texts" announced by the Ministry of Culture and realized in March 2016 with the "Vojdan Chernosdrinski" theater festival;
  • Special recognition for the documentary film "Adam and Eve", director: Gjorce Stavreski, screenwriter: Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska at ZagrebDox 2006.

 Other projects

  • Project Manager "Marketing and Art", interdisciplinary project with theater play "Cage", Center for Education, Culture and Art Danail Stanojeski, 2018;
  • Moderator of the panel "The Cage I Live In", Center for Education, Culture and Arts Danail Stanojeski", 2018;
  • Project Manager "How to achieve appropriate architectural and urban revitalization of neglected urban tissues", Center for Education, Culture and Art Danail Stanojeski, 2018;
  • Project Manager "My Pen - Project for Encouraging Creativity of Young People Aged 16 to 25 with Social Inclusion of Young People with Visual, Hearing and Speech Impairments", Center for Education, Culture and Arts Danail Stanojeski, 2018;
  • Producer of the theater play "Pure Heroine", director: Gjorgji Rizeski, 2018;
  • Producer of the theater play "Cage", author and director: Irma Baseska - Ristovska, 2018;
  • Producer of the short feature film "May 13", screenwriter and director: Irma Baseska – Ristovska, 2017;
  • Producer of the documentary film "My Father", a film by Irma Baseska-Ristovska, 2017;
  • Producer of the documentary film "Borojevic", a film by Mite Spasovski, 2017;
  • Producer of the documentary "Being Maksut", a film by Nihal Beyadin, 2017;
  • Producer of the short feature film "Condition", screenwriter and director: Daniel Shikoski 2017.
 
Aleksandar Gjorgjieski was born on November 7, 1987 in Skopje. He graduated from the Faculty of Audiovisual Arts - ESRA, Department of Acting in the class of Prof. Gjorgji Jolevski in 2010. Since 2014 he has been working at the Macedonian National Theatre - Skopje.

Selective theatrography

  • Ivakin, Ivan Ivanovich, gardener and beekeeper (Barbarians, 2025), author: Maxim Gorky, director: Vladimir Milchin, production: RSM NU Macedonian National Theatre;
  • Kosih (Ivanov, 2023), author: A. P. Chekhov, director: Zoja Buzalkovska, production: RSM NU Macedonian National Theatre;
  • Clegg (The Hangmen, 2019), author: Martin McDonough, director: Javor Grdev, production: Macedonian National Theatre;
  • (Othello, 2019), author: William Shakespeare, director: Nina Nikolić, co-production project between Peripetija Production, Macedonian National Theatre and Bosnian National Theatre Zenica;
  • Retired Actor (Without a Clutter, 2018), author: Michael Frain, and in a collective adaptation, director: Toni Mihajlovski, co-production: Macedonian National Theatre and Brachna Igra;
  • Celo, the Bosnian camp officer and cameraman (No Man's Land, 2017), authors: Danis Tanović and Aleksandar Morfov, director: Aleksandar Morfov, production: Macedonian National Theatre;
  • Alec (Digging, 2017), author: Christian Winkler, director: Franz Von Strohchen, production: Macedonian National Theatre;
  • The Guild (Siljan Stork's Lair, 2016), author: Dejan Dukovski, director: Srđan Janićijevic, production: Macedonian National Theatre;
  • Alexey Stakhanov (Life is Beautiful, 2016), author: Nikolay Erdman, director: Aleksandar Morfov, production: Macedonian National Theatre;
  • Snaut (Solaris, 2016), author: Stanislav Lem, director: Andrij Zholdak, production: Macedonian National Theatre;
  • Master of Ceremonies, Chief Fogarty and Martin Harrison (Chicago, 2015), authors: Fred Ebb, Bob Foss, director: Natasha Poplavska, production: Macedonian National Theatre;
  • The Second Man (Terrorism, 2015), authors: Vladimir and Oleg Presnyakov, director: Jordan Simonov, production: Macedonian National Theatre;
  • Levi Matej (The Master and Margarita, 2015), author: Mikhail Bulgakov, director: Ivan Popovski, production: Macedonian National Theatre;
  • Orestes (Electra, 2014), author and director: Andri Zholdak, production: Macedonian National Theatre;
  • Yoko (Let's Go, Senor, 2014), author: Ana Ristoska, director: Nela Vitošević, production: Macedonian National Theatre;
  • The Unborn Child – Happiness (The Blue Bird, 2014), author: Maurice Maeterlinck, director: Zlatko Slavenski, production: Macedonian National Theatre;
  • Rosencrantz, Guildernstern, Courtier (The Elsinore Affair, 2014), author and director: Ljubisa Georgievski, production: Macedonian National Theater;
  • Theodosius the Great (The Eternal House, 2013), author: Jordan Plevnesh, director: Dejan Projkovski, production: Macedonian National Theatre;
  • Morris (The Rise and Fall of the Cabaret, 2013), author: Arthur Schnitzler, director: Vladimir Milchin, production: Macedonian National Theatre;
  • Leading role (Psycho 4.48, 2011), author: Sarah Kane, director: Gjorgji Jolevski, co-production: Theater Quartet and Macedonian National Theater;
  • Marcel (Hamlet, 2010), author: William Shakespeare, director: Dejan Projkovski, production: Drama Theatre – Skopje;
  • The Middle (Open Sea), author: Slavomir Mrožek, director: Andrej Cvetanovski, Irena Sterijoska.
Selective filmography
  • Sime (Ten Kilograms, short film, 2021), director: Ayden Islami;
  • Bobby (TM, feature film, 2020), directors: Ivica Dimitrijević and Martin Ivanov;
  • (Dogs of war, 2018, short film), authors and directors: Pece Zdravkovski and Bojan Soklevski;
  • Alec (Digging, 2018), author: Christian Winkler, director: Ivica Dimitrijević;
  • Alec (Perfectionist, 2017, short film), authors: Olivera and Aleksandar Andonoski, director: Aleksandar Andonoski;
  • The Case (2016), director: Ivica Dimitrijevic;
  • Black (In Between, 2013), director: Vladimir Mitrevski;
  • The Waiter (This is not an American film, 2011), director: Sasho Pavlovski.
Awards
"Trajko Chorevski" Award for Young Actor at the 50th edition of the "Vojdan Chernodrinski" International Theatre Festival - Prilep, 2015, for the role of Orestes in the play "Electra", directed by Andrij Zholdak.
Additional information
TV series:
  • Misho Razvigorov (Hardcore, 2014), director: Mile Grozdanovski;
  • (Folk Tales, 2010).
Graduation performances:
  • (In Between), a short film directed by Vladimir Mitrevski – Gyule;
  • (On our way home), a short film directed by Dina Duma;
  • Mozart (Amadeus), author: Peter Scheffner, director: Andrej Cvetanovski;
  • Ivan (Art), author: Jasmina Reza, director: Irena Sterijoska.
Student acting performances:
  • Ivan Vasilevich-Lomov, Luka (first performance), Luka (second performance);
  • (Marriage Proposal), (Bear), author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov;
  • The Playwright (The Blue Room), author: David Hare;
  • Estragon, Clow, Protagonist (Play Beckett), author: Samuel Beckett (fragmentary performance);
  • Iago (Othello), author: William Shakespeare (fragmentary performance);
Theater directing exams (fragmentary performances):
  • Jean (Miss Julia), author: August Strindberg, director: Biljana Kolevska;
  • Shamraev (The Seagull), author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, director: Kuzman Klekovski;
  • Macbeth (Macbeth), author: William Shakespeare, director: Anna Aleksovska;
  • Hamlet (Hamlet), author: William Shakespeare, director: Hana Milenkovska;
  • Benedict, (Much Ado About Nothing), author: William Shakespeare, director: Toni Zengovski;
  • Philint (Misanthrope), author: Jean-Baptiste Moliere, director: Irena Sterijoska;
  • Chiron Lucius (Titus Andronicus), author: William Shakespeare, director: Kuzman Klekovski;
  • Orgon (The Confused Sick Man), author: Jean Baptiste Moliere, director: Kuzman Klekovski.
Other:
  • He acquired skills in: drawing, clay sculpting, playing the piano, guitar, and harmonica, and also practices capoeira (a Brazilian martial art with specific dance and music).

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