Theatre College "Luben Groys" bears the name of the prominent Bulgarian theatre director Luben Groyce who was highly acknowledged during his lifetime not only in Bulgaria but also abroad - as a member of The International Shakespearean Society in Weimar. He also received high appraisal on the Edinburgh Festival as an original interpreter of the Shakespearean dramaturgy.

His lifework is being registered in the German Encyclopaedia for Theatre. Foundation "Liuben Groys" was set up by people who care for the theatre cultural life in Bulgaria and want to preserve the traditions created by such producer as Liuben Groys in the field of Art. The College was established in 1991 an alternative to the government Art Academy in Sofia. Founder and head of the College is professor Elena Baeva - a long term lecturer on actor's and stage director's art at National Academy of Theatre and Film Art. Since its foundation the students of the College proved that for them "life is theatre and theatre is life" which helped them in all public appearances they had-mini festivals, workshops, and seminars in Bulgaria with participation of theatrical groups from abroad.

As a result of the enormous, passionate work done by both the students and their professors led by Elena Baeva the College is being invited in 1997 to present Chehov's program on the Festival of the Alternative Theatre Formations in Berlin, Germany.

Promising should be consider the fact that more than 90% of the graduates of the College received invitations to work for long established professional theatres not only in Sofia but also in the province. At the same time many of them had the chance to choose whether to continue their carrier on the stage of a theatre or to participate in musical-entertainment shows, TV-theatres, movies.

An offer made to them by the Bulgarian National Television and National Movie Making Company. Whatever the individual choices were it was a successful debut for the young graduate actors bearing in mind that almost all of them have permanent contracts. The College is situated in the prestigious building of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia.The foundation aims to help in developing new theatrical forms of education. To support the publishing of theatrical literature and to encourage talented young actors in perceiving their goals with professional guidance and funds. To organise staging competitions, art exhibitions and reviews of festivals of amateur art activities.

In Theatre College "Liuben Groys" students are taught in subject "Acting for Drama Theatre". The training process goes under the program "Actor of the Living Theatre". The main goal of the subject is to provide the students with a wide range of skills in the field of Drama Theatre in order they to be as competitive in their future professional career as possible after graduating from the college. Therefore the student who has successfully passed all exams, seminars etc. included in the College’s Programme:
--have a broad general knowledge and enough professional skills to be possible for him/her to express on stage his/hers individuality and specific way of thinking;
--have profound knowledge about the essence of those subjects that determine the base and the specificity of actor's work;
--be impulsive, adaptable, with good imagination and with self-confidence in his/her emotional and sensuous potential;
--have stage experience which to help him/her in the process of creating a convincing character. On one hand to have a clear conception about his/her role, on the other hand to work diligently and in details when achieving its uniqueness;
--be well informed about the traditional, conventional and contemporary, new ways of acting;
--have the qualities and have abilities to work in a team;
--have the needed knowledge, experience and spirits for building up a character with a realistic persuasive stage behaviour;
--have a sense of the different aspects of actor's profession: idealistic, social and individual;
--be aware of the cultural situation in his/her country and as a consequence to have the ability to "communicate" with the institutions of culture in order to find the domain for his/her professional realization;
-- have the skills not only to improvise but also to take part in a strictly constructed and dramatic consistent stage situation;
--have the possibility to continue his/her studies in an institution of higher education;

The practical skills, which the student acquires for his/her professional realization, determine the variety of methods of training during the three years of education in the college.
1. Lecture - is a theory instruction upon a problem that is a part of a thematic circle of the concrete branch of knowledge. Different educational systems are approved and students take active part in them. Discussions take place very often and they are an essential part of the Lecture.
2. Laboratory exercise - creates a situation in which the student has the opportunity to apply his/her theoretical knowledge. Those exercises aim to develop the actor's practical skills. Laboratory exercises are the most important and fundamental part of the studies in the college. They can be implemented individually or in groups from 2 to 4 participants.
3. Seminars - are held depending on the specifics of the concrete subject. Discussions are the main part of working during the seminars. Debates help the individual work done in a small group to be presented at the end to the whole class. Bearing in mind what has been said about the seminars it can be concluded that they are mainly intended to be the time for theory and analytical revisions of the work. On the contrary the public demonstration end its analyses are preferred by the practical subjects.
4. Terminal work-is the process of working out a piece of a role or hole role or writing approach to a theoretical problem. The tutors of the different subjects distribute the tasks at their own discretion. The mutual work between lecturers and students transforms into very helpful consultations, which have not any influence on the final exam decisions.
5. Course project - is "building up" a part in a play. That is the opportunity given to each student to implement in his/her individual project all knowledge and experience he/she has learnt trough the years from the whole complex, system of subjects.
6. Graduating work-is participation in a performance with his/her own built up part. Students have the chance to play on a professional stage and to demonstrate their developed, trough the years in the college, skills and abilities. In that final part of the education students master professional specifics of acting in a real theatrical environment.

Trough the three years studies - 40-50 hours per week. Subjects are structured and based upon the specifics of the courses and each of them finishes with an exam or other specific form of work evaluation.

As a result of their training students obtain universal theatre language to provide them entrance to different bays in the space of theatre as good as an effective professional career. Educational program of the College includes following courses:
ACTOR’S SKILL
CONTEMPORARY DANCE TECHNIQUE
STAGE SPEECH
MUSICAL EDUCATION
MUSICAL THEORY, RHYTHMIC AND INTONATION
PSYCHOLOGY OF THE PERSONALITY
THEATRE AND LITERATURE
SCREEN PLAY, MAKE UP, COSTUMES
HISTORY OF FINE ARTS
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
AIKIDO ACROBATICS
BULGARIAN FOLKLORE /theory and practice/
STAGE FIGHT
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
SPEECH THERAPY

The College was accredited as independent high school-college with decision of XXXIXth National Assembly on 13.02.2002. Students obtain study degree “bachelor” in professional field “Theatre and Film art”. With a decision of the National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency the College was accredit for a second time for a period of six years, to 2013.

Plays realised by the students at Theatre College "Liuben Groyce":
"Children of the Curse-1"-play based on ancient tragedies texts. Produced by prof. Elena Baeva
"Twelve Nights with the Storm Love"-plays based on some of comedies by Shakespeare. Produced by prof. Elena Baeva
"Mendelssohn for killers"-based on "…." by B. Brecht. Produced by prof. Elena Baeva
"Idiot"-based on Dostoevski novel. Produced by prof. Elena Baeva
"Children of the Curse-2"-play based on ancient tragedies texts. Produced by prof. Elena Baeva
"A Questionnaire of Escape Dreamers"-musical play. Produced by Robert Yanakiev and Biliana Petrinska. Participation in the Art-Festival-Duni'97.
" Wedding" by A. P. Chekhov. Produced by prof. Elena Baeva. Participation in: European Youth Theatre Festival, Berlin '97 ; International Theatre meeting named: " The Danube- European river the Danube-river of the Balkans", Russe '97 ; Meeting of the Theatre Schools on the Balkans, Sofia '97.
"Romeo and Jeanette" by Jean Anoui. A Grisha Ostrovski production
"Feast at the Time of Plague" musical performance based on Pushkin's play. Participation in the project "A. S. Pushkin and Scenic Art" devoted to the 200th birth day of the poet.
"A Lady's Maid Diary" by O. Mirbo. A Vladimir Petkov production.
"Olya, close your eyes"-play based on the third act of "Three Sisters" by A. P. Chekhov. A Krum Filipov production.
"Great Girls" by Karil Cherchil. A Nikola Petkov production.
"Art" by Iasmina Reza. A Cvetana Maneva production.
It was Nightingale…"-a play based on some of Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies. Produced by prof. Elena Baeva. An assistant producer Robert Yanakiev. Participation in the European Month of Culture, Plovdiv '99.
"Break the Script"-musical play. A Mila Iskrenova production.
"The Saint Swindler" by Yuri Dachev, based on Molier's play. Produced by prof. Elena Baeva
"The Round Dance" by Arthur Shnitzler. A Grisha Ostrovski production
"Mermaid" after Pushkin and Nabokov was created and realized by the students of Theatre College "Luben Groyce"
“African winter” - musical and dancing play. Producer and Choreography – Mila Iskrenova.
Figaro`s wedding – after Bomarshe. A Nikola Petkov production, scenery Svetla Nenkova.
“Platonov” after Anton Pavlovich Chehov. A Cvetana Maneva production.
“Will the liar” – a prof. Elena Baeva production.
“Cherry sisters” after Michael Green. A Robert Yanakiev production.
“The light across the street” based on Dostoevski, Pirandello, Kafka, Daltchev. A Ludmil Dimitrov and Valerii Parlikov production.
“Just today” musical based on Johnatan Larson “RENT”. Boris Pankin production.
“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare. A Georgi Novakov production.
“Three sisters” – A. P. Chehov. A Valerii Parlikov production.
“Wedding” – N. V. Gogol, prof. Entcho Halatchev production.
“Marriage with a General” – A. P. Chehov. A prof. Entcho Halatchev production.
“Romeo. Juliet. Gas.Station” – Ivan Radoev. A Georgi Novakov production.
“…Fucking Day, Dude!” – Eric Bogosian. Produced by prof. Elena Baeva
“The Transsexuals Or The Difficulty To Exprime Yourself” – Copi. A Nicolay Kalchev production.
“There Is the New Page” and “The Place” musical and dancing play based on the texts of Liuben Groys. Choreography – V. Yaneva – Nacheva. Produced by prof. Elena Baeva.
“When the Light and the Darkness Speak” - dancing play. Choreography – V. Yaneva – Nacheva. Produced by prof. Elena Baeva.