Yassen Vassilev graduated from the Theatre and Film Academy of Sofia where he lived and worked until recently. He published two poetry collections (Infinity in 2009 and Androgyne in 2011), created numerous spoken word performances based on them and won the award of the audience of the biggest national poetry festival Sofia:Poetics in 2010. His debut play The Walled in Ones won a play development award in 2011, was professionally produced in 2012 and got nominated for Play of the Year in 2013. Its English translation got its first workshop and reading in June 2014 in China. Since the beginning of 2014 Vassilev moved to Shanghai where he was a residence artist at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel and is currently doing a Master in Shanghai Theatre Academy. [Poetry]