Emona Stoykova is a NYC based set designer for theater and live performance, with a special interest in new plays and adaptations. Her work is focused in collaboration and seeking experimental and non-traditional approaches of storytelling.

She holds an MFA in Set Design from Yale School of Drama under Ming Cho Lee, a BA in Scenography from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria and is a graduate of the National School of Fine Arts, Bulgaria.

In Europe she’s collaborated with directors Alexander Morfov, Robert Wilson, Galin Stoev, among others. American design credits include more than 20 shows, such as An Enemy Of The People (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Gold Room (HERE Arts Center); She Talks to Beethoven, A Number, Girlfriend and The Seventeenth Chapel (A.R.T/NY Theatres); Coop (Paradise Factory); Ella in the Tundra (The Signature Theatre); Dead Man’s Cell Phone and Nothing is the End of the World (Stella Adler Studio); Old Friends That Just Met (Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute); The Hour of Great Mercy and Bulgaria! Revolt! (Yale Iseman Theatre).

She is a recipient of the Donald and Zorka Oenslager Fellowship Award in Design, the McDougal Scholarship and the Ray Klausen Scholarship. Her work was exhibited in the 2011 and 2015 Prague Quadrennial and was featured at the USA Pavilion of PQ 2019 and at USITT 2019.