Stage director
Biography
Alexander Morfov is a Bulgarian theatre and film director born in 1960. Wikipedia's biography of him is brief and gives no further career detail. He was born in Yambol on 9 November 1960, went to school in Sliven and spent two years at the Technical University in Varna before leaving it for the stage, working as stagehand and lighting man at the Stefan Kirov Drama Theatre in Sliven. Admitted to the VITIZ "Krastyo Sarafov" in 1984, he graduated in puppet-theatre directing in 1990 in the class of Yulia Ognyanova and in film directing with Georgi Dyulgerov in 1994. He acted at the Rodopi Drama Theatre, the Sofia Theatre and La Strada, and from 1993 directed at the Ivan Vazov National Theatre, which he headed in 2000-2001 and again from 2009, with a spell as interim director between January and September 2015. From 2001 to 2006 he was chief director of the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre in St Petersburg. An Askeer for direction came to him in 1998 for The Lower Depths.