Hristo Cheshmedzhiev

Graduating in 1992 from the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts, in Stefan Danailov's class, Hristo Cheshmedzhiev joined the Ivan Vazov National Theatre the same year and has remained in its company since. His parts there run from Tiresias in Antigone and Camille Desmoulins in Memory of a Revolution to Damis in Tartuffe, with work in Macbeth and King Lear and The Miser and A Piano on the Grass. In the 1998/99 season he took part in the multilingual project Shaving Wind, mounted in five language versions and premièred in Paris, Tokyo, New York, Sofia and Johannesburg. He also teaches acting. Freddy in Pygmalion, Angus in Macbeth and the King of France in King Lear are among the named parts in that list, and the international production of Shaving the Wind was Guy Shelley's. His teaching has taken him into Bulgarian universities and MONTFIZ, and he works in dubbing as well. He narrated André Hajdu's Dreams of Spain in a recording made in 1998 with Nayden Todorov and issued by Hungaroton in 1999.