about

Kosta Karakashyan is a director, writer, and choreographer working across film, theatre, and immersive storytelling. Through Studio Karakashyan, he crafts cinematic worlds that blend emotional intensity with elevated visuals, and through Karakashyan & Artists, he builds original IP spanning live performance and immersive experiences.

After studying at Columbia University in New York, performing on stages around the world on Dancing with the Stars, he has gone on to direct projects for Calvin Klein, H&M, and Greenpeace. His aesthetic combines the intimacy, vulnerability, and seduction of the body in motion with a contemporary visual sensibility shaped by cinema, fashion, and spectacle.

With a background in dance and an internationally recognized body of work, Kosta brings a unique movement-driven approach to directing, crafting emotionally charged worlds that resonate on a visceral level across commercial, narrative, and socially engaged work. Kosta is a Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe honoree and a member of the European Film Academy, and his work has been featured by NOWNESS, The New Yorker, The Guardian, ELLE, Bloomberg, BBC Radio, and Radio Free Europe.

Kosta is committed to telling stories that center marginalized voices and expand our understanding of personal truth, intimacy, and humanity. He sees filmmaking and performance as a way to cultivate empathy and emotion through motion.

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