Chinara Mikayilzade
2022 IVLP Impact Award Project: English Theater in AzerbaijanAzerbaijan
Chinara Mikayilzade is an appointed member of the Board of the Azerbaijan Youth Union, where she previously served as project executor and head of project and volunteer council. She is a 2017 graduate in radio communication, radio broadcasting and television at Baku State College of Communications and Transport. She previously worked as a radio presenter at Azerbaijan Television and as an organizer in Jam Group LLC and Azerbaijan Dance Association.
IVLP Impact Award Project: English Theater in Azerbaijan
This project created the first English-language theater production in Azerbaijan of The Greatest Showman. The goal of the project was to increase cultural education among the country's youth, improve English language skills among artists and increase the level of knowledge about the modern culture of the musical.
More than 40 performers participated in the musical, which was attended by 269 people. An additional troupe of 12 main characters were trained in literary English. Due to the success of the musical, the theatre decided to perform more English-speaking shows, including a children's show. More on Chinara's project is available here: Oxu.az - Azərbaycanda “Greatest Showman” in Azerbaijan” müziklinin dünya premyerası oldu - FOTO
"Please pass on my thanks to the theater for putting on such an amazing, challenging, and beautiful performance." - Project Participant
IVLP Exchange Experience
Chinara participated in the IVLP Project Azerbaijan - Arts Management and Advancing Social Change Through the Arts organized by the U.S. Department of State and World Learning, in partnership with Global Ties Detroit, World Affairs Council of Kentucky & Southern Indiana, Global Ties ABQ, San Antonio Council for International Visitors, International Citizen Diplomacy of Los Angeles and WorldBoston.
Chinara's exchange experience led to the development of her IVLP Impact Award Project: "My IVLP experience helped give me the skills necessary to carry out my Impact Award project. I have dreamed about this for several years, and IVLP helped me get here!"
U.S. Communities Visited Virtually
Los Angeles, CA; Louisville, KY; Washington, DC; Boston, MA; Detroit, MI; Albuquerque, NM; San Antonio, TX.