WHO WE ARE
People
The artists front- and backstage.
DIRECTOR · ACTOR · WRITER
MD, PhD — medical professional and scientist who has transitioned to a career in theatre. Founder and artistic director of Glass Bead Theatre. Focuses on experimental and multidisciplinary projects, staging philosophically resonant works for diverse audiences. His recent credits include adapting and directing "The Cagebirds", "Behind Closed Doors" and writing and directing "KeyWords: Wagner & Nietzsche". As a performer/dancer, he has recently been part of a short film "InCubus" and an immersive performance "Calibration".
Mikhail Volkov
SCENOGRAPHER · LIGHTING DESIGNER
Experimental scenographer and researcher with previous experience in architecture. Designed scenography, stage and lighting for Behind Closed Doors.
Alkmini Damianakou
COMPOSER · SOUND DESIGNER · MUSIC CURATOR
Dmitry Surugin is an Amsterdam-based composer, electronic musician and sound artist, trained in sound engineering at SAE Amsterdam. His work moves between electronic composition, acoustic instruments, field recordings and archival sound, with a strong focus on atmosphere, narrative and interdisciplinary performance. His recent project Ingrian Tape explores memory, cultural disappearance and belonging through his Ingrian heritage, expanding from music into theatre and visual forms. With Glass Bead Theatre, he has composed, designed sound and performed live for productions including Behind Closed Doors and Cagebirds.
Dmitry Surugin
PRODUCER
Anastasia Gorshunova is a cultural producer and project manager working at the intersection of theatre, music, contemporary art and storytelling. Her background ranges from international art&science exhibitions to large-scale charity and educational events and cultural media projects. She is drawn to projects that cross disciplines, experiment with form and turn complex ideas into vivid, engaging experiences.
Anastasia Gorshunova
MUSICIAN · MUSIC CURATOR
Born in Moscow and based in Amsterdam, Ekaterina Zhemaitis is a pianist whose performances are marked by emotional depth and musical storytelling.
Ekaterina Zhemaitis
PRODUCER · STAGE MANAGER · HEAD OF PRODUCTION
Producer and choreographer whose work bridges film, advertising, and theatre, with a particular passion for musical theatre. Her artistic practice explores the connection between body and mind, and the power both can unleash on stage and screen. Milena has built her career across media agencies and independent film productions, and her dance and film work has earned accolades in both the UK and the Netherlands. Recent credits include choreographing the musical Spring Awakening, producing the short film A Star Falls Under An Acid Sky and Behind Closed Doors, and working as PA on Emma Evelein's acclaimed dance film Born Into You.
Milena Gabrysiak
ACTOR
Degree in Theatre from the University of Toronto. Knowledge in all styles of theatre and performance.
Marryl Smith
CELLIST
Cellist Anastasia Feruleva captivates audiences across Europe with her expressiveness and authentic personality. Born in Arkhangelsk, she began playing at five and studied in The Hague, Berlin, Lübeck and Madrid. She has performed at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and other renowned European venues as a soloist and chamber musician, regularly appearing at international festivals. In 2016, she won second prize and the commissioned work interpretation prize at Amsterdam’s Cello Biennale competition. Her recordings include Ballets Russes with pianist Frank van de Laar and L’esprit du temps, featuring Enescu, Stravinsky, Lili and Nadia Boulanger. She plays a cello made by Rombouts in 1710.
Anastasia Feruleva
ACTOR
Graduate of Screen Acting program at Catalyst (Berlin). Trained in improv and physical theatre. Driven by a deep fascination with human behaviour.
Sergio Borges
ACTOR
Niki Christoforidou is an actress and performance maker from Greece whose artistic work lies at the intersection of theatre, instant composition and devised theatre. She began her training in acting in Greece and later completed her Master's degree in Home of Performance Practices with a specialisation in Expanded Choreographyat ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands.
Niki Christoforidou
COSTUME DESIGNER
Cecilia is a production designer, producer, costume maker and scenographer. Her work draws on an acute sense of timing, movement, historical reference, scale, and narrative to shape the atmosphere of what she creates. Her work is dynamic and interdisciplinary, rooted in storytelling and deeply informed by my background in dance and movement.
Cecilia Berghäll
GRAPHIC DESIGNER · SOCIAL MEDIA · DESIGN
Degree in graphic design. Previously marketed Orange Theatre Company's Venus In Fur (2024). Shapes visuals and style across social media.
Niamh Boland
PHOTOGRAPHER · VIDEOGRAPHER
Cameraman, video editor. Made a career from my hobby while waiting for asylum in the Netherlands.
Nikolai Martynenko
PHOTOGRAPHER · VIDEOGRAPHER
I’m drawn to people who are passionate about what they do — people who create, explore, experiment, and have something they want to share with the world. I help their ideas find an audience through photography, video, storytelling, and live experiences.
Fedor Kulikov
PHOTOGRAPHER
Photography and theater are among the things I truly love. They both have a degree of magic to them. I can't remember myself not taking photos - ever since I got my first camera at around age 11. About that same time I played in my first ever play on stage. As an adult, I even did a couple of years of acting school. So, theater photography has a special place in my list of hobbies, with travel, drawing and building things among others. I've been living in Amsterdam for three years now and still discovering its magic every day.
Grigorii Statsenko
CHOREOGRAPHER
A choreographer, dancer, theatre maker and actor creating meaningful work where movement, storytelling and human experience come together.
Susie Kranenburg
DRAMATURGE
Evgeniya Rudyuk is a theatre and film maker working across text, performance, and visual media. During her studies at VGIK and the Moscow Film School, she was awarded by grants from prestigious cinema institutions. Her portfolio includes a dozen produced films, scripts in development and theatre works. Her feature script La Dauphine was selected for TorinoFilmLab
Evgeniya Rudyuk
SCENOGRAPHER
Katya Timofeeva (based in Utrecht) is a visual artist and theater maker. She is currently engaged in an artistic research that centers around a fear/a love for repetition: in the world around us, in language, in gesture, and in ourselves, of course… Working across text, visual art and theater, the work is shaped by repetitions and rehearsals of found materials, overheard phrases, participatory encounters, and the uneasy dialogue between global politics and personal life. She is also part of a theater duet “uneventful catastrophes” with Chris Handberg.
Katya Timofeeva
ACTOR
Background in psychology. Explores complexity and vulnerability of the human experience in acting. Continues to expand craft through creative writing.
Ece Ozenir
PRODUCER · PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
Dmitry "Di" Ratushnyy is an improviser pulled into theatre, based in Amsterdam. He trained at Boom Chicago and Easy Laughs, and took courses in character comedy, clowning, and creative writing. He performed with the improv group "Two Minds Working as one-half" in Amsterdam and Eindhoven, and volunteered for two years as webmaster for the IMPRO Amsterdam festival. In 2025, he founded the production company The Redacted Bureau and staged his first one-act play. He went on to coordinate a production of Sartre's "Behind Closed Doors," and in spring 2026 directed Jeremy Keighley's "Sunday Morning" for InPlayers' "Fresh Ink."
Dmitry Ratushnyy
DIRECTOR · SCENOGRAPHER
Anja Evmenova (director and designer) is an artist and scenographer born in St. Petersburg and based in The Hague. She studied at the Russian Academy of Arts and went on to work as a set designer with theatres across Russia, including the Bolshoi Puppet Theatre and Karlsson Haus. In the Netherlands she completed the School of Puppets Advanced course at Haags Theaterhuis and created the scenography for the performance Where We Laid (Limburg Theatre Festival).
Anja Evmenova
PHOTOGRAPHER · SOUND DESIGNER · LIGHT TECH
Devoted admirer and occasional supporter of independent art. Doing technical stuff in a creative way.