Tzvetelina Iossifova
Biography
co-director of The Red House Center for Culture and Debate, Sofia Tzvetelina Iossifova (b. 1969) is co-founder of The Centre of Culture and Debate "The Red House". She graduated Economics and Management of Industry (MBA) from the University for National and World Economy in Sofia (1987-1992). She has studied Theatre studies at the Theatre Department of the New Bulgarian University (NBU) (1990-1994) where she started her professional carrier as an executive manager of the same department (1993-1996). From 1990 till 1994 Tzvetelina had intense practice as a performer herself. From 1996 till 1999 she managed the Performing arts programmes of the Soros Centre for the Arts – Sofia (SCA - Sofia), where she was afterwards the senior programme coordinator till the end of 2001. Since 1997 Tzvetelina is a visiting lecturer in project & theatre management in the public semester of NBU and in the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, since 2001. Tzvetelina established and managed variety of projects and programmes, among those - the Summer Academy for Performing Arts – Sofia (an international interdisciplinary project for professional training & communication between independently working artists in the Balkan region and the wider region of Central and Eastern Europe), the Fund for Support of Debut Projects, the Arts for Social Change – Play Against Violence Programme for Bulgaria, etc.
tzviossifova@redhouse-sofia.org