Yulya Dukhovny is a Russian/Israeli artist, lives in Long Beach. She started her career as a classic pianist. 1990 - 2006 she lives and works in Israel. Composing original scores for theater and film, she has been awarded "Best Theater Composer of the Year" at the 1999 Fringe Theater Festival in Israel. In 2006 Dukhovny moved to Los Angeles.
She has also engaged extensively in opera as Associate, Stage and Assistant Director for Franco Zeffirelly, Giancarlo Del Monaco, David Pountney, Manfred Belharz, Jean- Claude Auvrey, Peter Sellars and Bill Viola including work on more than 30 European and US opera productions. 2002-2005 Dukhovny was Stage Director for Young Opera Studio Programs and led the summer workshops (including "Model Theater: from designing to performing") at the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv. From 2010 Dukhovny focuses on Toy (Model) theater medium. She designs and performs solo miniature shows and Model theater installations under the name "Microscope Toy Theater" through festivals, galleries, museums. Her work incorporates object based performance, video, traditions of paper theater, physical theater techniques, original music. Among Dukhovny's venues: International Toy Theater festivals in France, Germany, Russia and Mexico as well as 10th "Great Small Works" Festival in New York, "On Edge" Festival of Contemporary Performance, Santa Barbara, Detroit and Connecticut Institutes of Arts. She is a resident artist at the Meyerhold Theater in Moscow. MA in music
