斯内基纳·坦科夫斯卡( Snejina Tankovska)
斯内基纳是戏剧导演，NATFA（索菲亚国立戏剧及电影学院）戏剧艺术系主任，她在NATFA学院教授表导演专业，同时也是中国中央戏剧学院客座教授。
她的教育背景植根于俄罗斯及东欧戏剧传统。自1989年起，在保加利亚开始自己的教学及导演工作。通过在全世界各地游历，与欧洲，美国，加拿大及中国的戏剧院校及专业院团共同进行学术研究并创作不同的合作项目。她作为一名戏剧导演，尤其关注当代剧作家以探讨当下人类境遇为主题的作品的舞台呈现。在过去25年中，她为保加利亚专业院团引进了许多当代最杰出的剧作家,如David Mamet; Tony Kushner, Eric Bogosian; Neil LaBute; Caryl Churchill; David Hare; Eric Emmanuel Schmidt等人最具代表性的作品。
许多艺术家团体长期坚守这样的创作理念：剧场的重要性在于反映人们的现实生活并将人们聚集到一起，作为他们中的一员，斯内基纳感到非常荣幸。在她们的工作中，她们重视个人尊严，正义以及人与人之间的相互理解，这也是她在执教及戏剧创作中所遵循的主要理念。她坚信，教育，尤其是高等艺术教育通过激发并鼓励思维及表达的创造性，革新性以及自主性可以促使人类变革并加快此变革进程。她的表演及导演专业的学生们接受了严格的专业课程训练，这些训练的目地不仅在于培养他们高水准的戏剧创作技能，更要求他们作为社会的一份子对身处的社会承担自己的责任。在他们的学习过程中，他们专门研究那些在戏剧领域做出过创新性贡献的剧作家作品，如莎士比亚，莫里哀，契诃夫，易卜生，布莱希特，贝克特，尤奈斯库，品特等。
她作为表演及导演教师执教于NATFA（保加利亚国立戏剧及电影学院）的同时，也在索菲亚及保加利亚各大专业院团执导作品。1996至2010年担任ELIA（欧洲艺术研究联盟）主席会成员。在过去的25年中，她参与了国内外各种交流项目（工作坊，大师班，戏剧节），其中包括由地中海戏剧院校网络(OLIVE, Network of Mediterranean Theatre Schools);联合国教科文组织——国际剧协主席“文明的戏剧与文化”（UNESCO-ITI Chair “Theatre and Culture of Civilizations”）; 世界戏剧学院协会（World Consortium of Theatre Schools）; 全球戏剧学院联盟 (GATS，Global Alliance of Theatre Schools)等组织发起的活动。这些活动项目均旨在促进世界范围内的高等艺术教育，尤其注重在戏剧院校，专业院团，艺术研究机构以及社会之间开展交流与合作。
Snejina Tankovska
Theatre director; Dean Stage Arts Faculty at NATFA (National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia); Professor of Acting and Directing at NATFA; visiting professor at The Central Academy of Drama in Beijing
Education: MA in Theatre Directing from NATFA; postgraduate studies at: GITIS (State Institute of Theatre Art in Moscow), Birkbeck College, University of London; Marcel Hicter Foundation, Brussels (Diploma of Cultural Project Manager).
My educational background was rooted in the great tradition of Russian and East European Theatre. After 1989 alongside with teaching and directing in Bulgaria, I traveled a lot to study and work on a variety of educational and professional projects in Europe, US, China.
As theatre director I am particularly interested in staging texts by contemporary playwrights which speak about the human condition. During the last twenty five years I introduced to Bulgarian professional stage emblematic works by some of the most prominent contemporary playwrights: David Mamet; Tony Kushner, Eric Bogosian; Neil LaBute; Caryl Churchill; David Hare; Eric Emmanuel Schmidt, among others.
I am proud to be part of an artistic community that was persistently and with perseverance asserting the importance of theatre as an art which connects live to the audience and brings people together, which values human dignity, justice, and mutual understanding. Those are the leading principles of my work as academic, and theatre professional as well.
I believe in the idea that education, especially the higher arts education is a human right which enhances change and progress through stimulating and encouraging creativity, innovation and independence of thinking and expression. My acting and directing students follow a rigorous training program which is the ground for their formation not only as highly skilled theatre professionals, but as individuals with active and responsible position in society. During the course of their studies they work on texts by Shakespeare, Moliere, Chekhov, Ibsen, Brecht, Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter – playwrights who trace new paths in the domain of drama and theatre.
I had staged theatre productions in Sofia and at other professional theatres in Bulgaria, and I teach Acting and Directing for Theatre, being an artistic leader of a class of acting and directing students at NATFA.
I was elected and served as a member of ELIA (European League if Institutes of Arts) Board and Executive Group for ten years in the period 1996-2010.
For the last 25 years I was actively involved in various national and international projects and events (workshops, masterclasses, festivals) initiated and executed by organizations as: OLIVE (Network of Mediterranean Theatre Schools); UNESCO-ITI Chair “Theatre and Culture of Civilizations”; World Consortium of Theatre Schools; GATS (Global Alliance of Theatre Schools) among others, that aimed to promote higher education in the arts worldwide, with a special focus on the collaboration between theatre education, professional theatre, arts institutions and society.
