Albena Tagareva is currently a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Art Studies at
Bulgarian Academic of Sciences after receiving her M.A. in Theatre Studies
with a focus on "New media art in Bulgarian set design" from The National
Academy for Theatre and Film Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria in 2012. She also works as
a freelance theatre critic and observer. Previously, Ms. Tagareva worked at The
Art Office Foundation as a program coordinator. She is one of the young authors
at the Bulgarian cultural magazines, Homo Ludens and Literaturen vestnik,
and contributes to the New Dramaturgy Platform website which is an online
platform for contemporary performing arts, theory and criticism. Ms. Tagareva
is interested in contemporary performing arts and the mixture of media art and
theatre and in 2013 was invited to be part of the jury of the National Theatre
Awards IKAR.