Irina Tsikurishvili, Founder and Choreographer

Irina Tsikurishvili graduated from the Tbilisi Chabukiani Ballet School. She is a 30-time Helen Hayes Award Nominee and has won the award seven times for her choreography of The Idiot, Faust, Hamlet...the rest is silence, The Master and Margarita, Frankenstein, Macbeth and Carmen, which won over her other nomination in 2009, Romeo and Juliet. She has also choreographed for the Stanislavsky Theater Studio, including The Idiot, Little Tragedies, Don Quixote and La Malade Imaginaire.

For acting, she received a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Ensemble in Hamlet...the rest is silence, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Othello and was nominated for Outstanding Leading Actress for her role as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Outstanding Ensemble for Faust and Carmen.

Ms. Tsikurishvili has taught at the Catholic University of America, American University and Georgetown University, where she choreographed Lysistrata. She continues to run intensive movement workshops to train Synetic cast members.