Awards & Recognition
The Orange Summer Festival
May 29-31, 2026
Resonance Studio Theatre participated in Orange Summer Theatre Festival in Boston, MA with production “Where’s Charley,” directed by Nelya Galiakbarova, and received the following awards:
Audience Choice Award - Ivan Baranov
For Mastery of Transformation - Ivan Baranov
For Expressive Vocal Duo - Gabi Vaks
For Expressive Vocal Duo - Nilla Melnik
For Powerful Acting Expression and Musicality - Mike Lion
For Outstanding Acting Performance - Georgy Odrov
For Original Music - Anna Vasilevskaya
For Directorial Intuition and Sensitive Approach to the Material - Nelya Galiakbarova
For Sparkling Humor and Musicality - Resonance Studio Theatre
International Theatre Festival in Lyon
April 19, 2026
Resonance Studio Theatre participated in International Theatre Festival 2026 in Lyon, France (dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the birth of Yevgeny Shvarts) with excerpt from our production “Fantasy About Zolushka,” directed by Nelya Galiakbarova, and received the following awards:
Best Acting Ensemble
The BITFest 2026 Festival
April 3-5, 2026
Resonance Studio Theatre participated in BITFest 2026 in Bellevue, WA with production “The Case of the Crushed Petunias,” directed by Nelya Galiakbarova, and received the following awards:
Outstanding Set Design - Vladimir Eremin
Outstanding Sound Design - Josh Lanza
Participation Award
Best in the Pacific Northwest
September 21, 2025
Resonance Studio Theatre have been named Best in the Pacific Northwest - in not one, but two categories:
Best Theater Company
Best Arts & Culture Events!
You can see online magazine here
The Orange Summer Festival 2025
May 30 - June 1, 2025
Resonance Studio Theatre participated in Orange Summer Theatre Festival in New Hampshire with production “Chekhov's early stories,” directed by Nelya Galiakbarova, and received the following awards:
For the sincerity and depth of acting - Gosha Odrov
For the best lyrical stage duet - Gabi Palagashvili
For the best lyrical stage duet - Stanigost Abakumov
For the impeccable comic timing - Ivan Baranov
For the careful embodiment of Chekhov's characters - Eugene Zabokritski
For the careful embodiment of Chekhov's characters - Natalya Grebenik
For the aesthetics and taste of the artistic design - Chekhov's Early Short Stories
For the precise intonation in the spirit of Chekhov's prose - Chekhov's Early Short Stories
For the choreographic and dance arrangement - Chekhov's Early Short Stories
MY POET – an international festival of poetry and videopoetry
April 5, 2025
Resonance Studio Theatre participated in International Festival of Poetry, Finland with excerpt from our production “The Tale of Fedot the Strelets,” directed by Nelya Galiakbarova, and received the following awards in Videopoetry category:
2nd Place - Ivan Baranov
Audience Choice Award - Ivan Baranov
Ivan was reading “The Tale of Fedot the Strelets” L. Filatov
Kaleidoscope festival (WSCTA)
February 13-16, 2025
Resonance Studio Theatre participated in Kaleidoscope Festival (Spokane, WA) with "The Case of the Crushed Petunias” by Tennessee Williams, Composed by Josh Lanza, directed by Nelya Galiakbarova, and received the following awards:
Outstanding Costume Design - Nelya Galiakbarova, Veronika Tchesnokova, Evgenia Baranova, Natalya Grebenik
Outstanding Choreography - Anna Karpukhina
Outstanding Properties - Nelya Galiakbarova, Veronika Tchesnokova, Natalya Grebenik
Backstage Congeniality Award - Cast and Crew
All Star Cast - Andrey Grebenik and Mike Lion
WSCTA's The Ralph Eaton New Horizons Award
MY POET – an international festival of poetry and videopoetry
September 15, 2024
Resonance Studio Theatre participated in International Festival of Poetry, Finland and received the following awards in Videopoetry category:
3 Place - Vladimir Grebenik
Vladimir was reading poem by A.S. Pushkin “Beauty Who Sniffed Tobacco”.
MY POET – an international festival of poetry and videopoetry
May 19, 2024
Resonance Studio Theatre participated in International Festival of Poetry, Finland and received the following awards in Videopoetry category:
2 Place - Grigory Vodolazov
Grigory was reading a theatrical composition titled “I walk through the city, a thought whistles within me…” based on the poetry of Gennady Shpalikov.
