Irina Tsikurishvili
(Resident Choreographer, Founder)

Irina Tsikurishvili graduated from the Tbilisi Chabukiani Ballet School, and she has performed as a principal dancer and mime in numerous productions at the Georgian State Pantomime Theater. From 1993-95, she served as choreographer for the Mimodrama Theater in Saarbrücken, Germany. For STS she choreographed and performed in numerous productions , including The Little Tragedies, The Idiot, Le Malade Imaginaire, Faust, and Don Quixote. She received the prestigious Helen Hayes Awards for Choreography in 2000 and 2001 for her work on The Idiot and Faust, and has also received nominations for The Little Tragedies, and Don Quixote. For Synetic Theater, she has choreographed Hamlet…the rest is silence, Host and Guest, Salomé, The Crackpots, The Master and Margarita and has performed in each of these productions, including the title role of Salomé. For her work on Hamlet…the rest is silence, she received the 2003 Helen Hayes Award for Choreography; she was also nominated for the same award for Host and Guest. Irina was nominated for the 2004 Helen Hayes Award for Choreography for Salomé. Most recently, Irina won the 2006 Helen Hayes Award for Choreography in Frankenstein, and has received three Outstanding Choreography Nominations for 2007, as well as a nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress.