Marius Kurkinski

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Ivaylo Stoyanov^[1] (Bulgarian: Ивайло Стоянов) (born 15 October 1969), better known as Marius Kurkinski (Мариус Куркински), is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer. He wrote, directed and starred in the 1996 Bulgarian film Dnevnikat Na Edin Lud (The Diary of a Madman).

Kurkinski has built a reputation both in Bulgaria and abroad for his one-man shows such as "The Lady with the Dog” and "The Lone Man". He won the award Europe's Actor in the International Monodrama Festival in Oteševo, Republic of Macedonia for his performance of "The Dream" by Julian Barnes in 2003. Later that year, he won the Apolonia Award at the Apollonia Festival held in Sozopol, Bulgaria. In honour of the awards, he was invited to participate in World Theatre Day on March 27, 2004 held in Paris, France.

He is openly gay.^[2][3]