Graduated from The National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts "Kr. Sarafov" (NATFA) in 1980 in the class of Prof. Nikolai Lyutskanov. She has worked at The Smolyan Drama Theatre, The Vazrazhdane Theatre, The Pleven Drama Theatre, Theatre 199, and Little City Theatre "Off The Channel".
Since 2010 she has been in the troupe of the Ivan Vazov National Theatre, where her roles include Lucy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey, Marianne in "Miss Julie" by August Strindberg, Lenya in "Life is Wonderful" by Nikolai Erdman, Avdotya in "Revisor" by Nikolai Gogol, Miss Forsyth in "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller, The Neighbor in "Freedom in Bremen. Frau Gesche Gottfried" by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, characters in the play "On the Edge", Death in "Geo" by Hristo Karastoyanov, Water in "The Blue Bird" by Maurice Maeterlinck, Woman in "Caligula" by Albert Camus.
Nominated for the Icarus Awards 2023 for the leading female role for the performance "Ignorance".
She has won a Special Award from the Municipality of Shumen for the performance "Ignorance", an Award from the International Theatre Festival of Comedy and Satirical Performance for the female role in the performance "Ignorance", an Award from the National Festival of Small Theatre Forms in Vratsa for the female role in the performance "Ignorance" and an ASKEER Award 2023 for a mono-performance for the performance "Ignorance".
During this season, on the stage of the Ivan Vazov National Theatre, you can watch Albena Stavreva in the following performances: "Caligula", "Vazov's People", "Golemanov", "Pieces of a Woman", as well as in her original mono-performance "Ignorance".
