Door Behind a Door

Yelena Moskovich is a Ukrainian-born American and French artist and writer, author of of Virtuoso, long-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and The Natashas (Serpent's Tail, 2019, 2016). She emigrated to Wisconsin with her family as Jewish refugees in 1991, then alone to Paris, France in 2007. With her origins performing arts, she studied playwriting at Emerson College (Boston), physical theatre at Ecole Jacques Lecoq (Paris), and received a Master of Arts, Esthetics, & Philosophy (Performing Arts) from Universite Paris 8. She co-founded her own theatre company, La Compagnie Pavlov in Paris, with whom she developed the dance-theatre piece Vestiges / Vertiges that performed in La Maison de la Musique et de la Danse de Bagneux and at the Luckman in Los Angeles (2010-2011) - no longer active. Her plays and performances have been produced in the US, Canada, France, and Sweden. She has also written for Vogue, Frieze, Apartamento, Times Literary Supplement, Paris Review, Mixte, Dyke On Magazine, amongst others. In 2018, she served as a curator and exhibiting artist for the Los Angeles Queer Biennial. She lives in Paris.

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