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Oleh Tsiona

Executive and Artistic Director, Actor

Executive and Artistic Director, Actor of the Les Kurbas Theater Lviv, Honored Artist of Ukraine, graduated from the Acting Studio at Les Kurbas Theater (1989) and Ivan Franko Lviv National University (2003). He taught acting at acting course at Ivan Franko Lviv National University (2001-2009). He has appeared in films: "Danylo Halytskyi", "The Blood Field", "Bohdan", "Mystery of the Maestro", "Bishop Andrey", "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors". Winner of Borys Romanytskyi Regional Award for Theater Arts (2007).

Education:
1989 Acting Studio at Les Kurbas Theater
2003 Ivan Franko Lviv National University

Theater experience:
The Les Kurbas Theatre:

1989 Brother Dominic, " Garden of Unyieding Sculptures" by Lina Kostenko
1990 Sabo, "Johanna, the wife of Chuza" by Lesia Ukrainka
1990 Tykhon, Red Army officer, "Between The Two Forces" by Volodymyr Vynnychenko
1990 Viscount de Juayoz, "The Court of Henry III" by Alexander Dumas
1991 Raskolnykov, Razumikhin, "Dreams" by based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment"
1992 Raskolnykov, Razumikhin, "Illusions" by based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment"
1993 Erodius, Father, " Grace-given Erodiy" by Hryhoriy Skovoroda
1994 Svydryhailov, " Games For Faust " by based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment"
1995 Judas, Chusa, "Apocrypha" by Lesia Ukrainka
1996 "The Dream", reading of Taras Shevchenko’s poetry
1996 Hayev, Yasha, "The Cherry Orchard " by Anton Chekhov
1996 "Prayer to the Stars", reading of Bohdan Ihor Antonych poetry
2000 Aristophanes, "In Praise of Eros" based on Plato's “The Banquet”
2000 Commander, " The Stone Host " by Lesia Ukrainka
2002 Father, "Summer News" singing field
2002 Aristophanes, "Silenus Alcibiadis" based on Plato's “The Banquet”
2004 Adam Kysil, "Bohdan" KLIM
2006 Pozzo, "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett
2006 Judge, "Ma-Na Hat-Ta (Divineland)" based on Ingeborg Bachmann’s "The Good God of Manhattan"
2010 Greenberg, "Between The Two Forces" by Volodymyr Vynnychenko
2010 Lear, "King Lear" by William Shakespeare
2011 Lisovyk, "The Song of the Forest" by Lesia Ukrainka
2013 The lone choir, or the one who asks "not choir", "Thus spoke Zarathustra" based on Nietzsche and KLIM
2013 Chef, "Empty trash" (We burn trash) Tetiana Ivashchenko (stage reading of the play)
2016 Orach Konik William, " Knives in Hens or The Legacy of the Miller " by David Harrover

Independent theater experience:
1993 He, "Autumn" by Oleksandr Oles
1994 He, "The Voice" by Harold Pinter
2005 Schastlyvtsev, "DerVald"

Theater teaching:
2001 Acting course at Ivan Franko National University, Lviv
2005-2009 Acting course at Ivan Franko National University, Lviv, Ukraine

Filmography:
1986 Yurodyvyi, "Danylo Halytskyi", director - Yaroslav Lupiy
2000 Messiah, "The Field of Blood", directed by Yaroslav Lupiy
2002 Adam Kysil, "Bohdan", directed by Mykola Mashchenko
2006 Sosnovskyi, "Attorney-at-Law"
2007 Tsoppis, "Mystery of the Maestro", directed by Mykola Fediuk
2008 Josyph Slipyi, “Vladyka Andrey”, director - Oles Yanchuk
2010 Solenyi, "The One Who Passed Through the Fire", director - Mykhailo Illienko
2013 The Blind Professor, "The Shadows of Unforgettable Ancestors", directed by Liubomyr Levytskyi

Awards:
2003 Best Actor Award, " In Praise of Eros ", Stobi, Macedonia
2006 Best Supporting Actor, "Waiting for Godot", Ternopil Theatrical Nights "Debut", Ternopil, Ukraine

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