Actor

Atanas Naidenov

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About

Atanas Rumenov Naidenov was born in Smolyan in 1984. Even as a student, he became one of the faces of bTV, but quickly quit television. He graduated from NATFIZ "Krastyo Sarafov" in 2009, in the class of Professor Plamen Markov and Ivaylo Hristov. In his professional path, he has worked on stage with directors such as Tedi Moskov, Krassimir Spasov, Yury Dachev, Delian Iliev, Andrey Kaludov, Yosif Sarchadzhiev, and Blagoy Boychev. Cinema, however, introduced him to Ivan Nichev, Ivan GEC, Svetoslav Draganov, Stanislav Donchev, and others, less well-known, with whom he worked in various television series. He is musically literate. He sings well, studied solfège, and plays the violin and guitar. Since the age of 20, he has been involved in hip hop and is known on the Bulgarian rap scene under the pseudonym Cigulkata (QTEK Crew). Stage projects: Andrei, in "Love Me" based on "Momo" by Sebastien Thiery - director Andrey Kaludov - 2024; Kalun Aga, in "Kalunya-Kalya" based on the novel by Georgi Bozhinov - director Blagoy Boychev - 2022; The Man of Young Age, in the poetic play "There, Where We Are Not", based on texts by Georgi Gospodinov - director Delian Iliev - 2021; Droho Kehaya, in "Yudina Ela" based on texts by Pop Kanyo - director Yury Dachev - 2020; Prince Orsino, in "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare - director Delian Iliev - 2019; Creon, in "Antigone and the People" based on "Antigone" by Sophocles - a play by Delian Iliev - 2018; Andrey Prozorov, in "Three Sisters" by A.P. Chekhov – director Delian Iliev – Smolyan (the play was nominated for the ASKEER award for the debut of director D. Iliev) - 2017; The Head of the Department, The Director of the Department, The Chamberlain, and The Grand Inquisitor, in "The Diary of a Madman" by N.V. Gogol – director Lyudmila Stoyn – RDT "Nikolai Haitov"- 2017. Several small roles in "Marmalade", directed by Tedi Moskov from 2008 to 2012 (actor as a substitute for the period), in partnership with Maya Novoselska, Valentin Tanev, Toncho Tokmakchiev, Niki Dodov, and others.