She was raised in Plovdiv where she attended the French Language High School "Antoine de Saint Exupéry," graduating in 2003 before moving to Sofia, Bulgaria to complete her education at the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts under the tutelage of Professors Margarita Mladenova and Ivan Dobchev.
Following that she performed in Nirvana (2009), and in the following years toured Canada and France with the play Construction of the Liberated Imagination (2010) based on the works of Eugène Ionesco.
Her first lead role came in 2012 in which she portrayed, along with Janet Spassova, two women named Yura and Adriana, in Petar Popzlatev's I Am You (2012).
[3] Chichikova plays a librarian named Boryana who unintentionally becomes the mother of a daughter, Viktoria, who lacks an umbilical cord and so incurs immediate state attention, preventing her family from fleeing the country.
Some notable ones include The Art of Sweeping Things Under the Rug (2008), Nirvana (2009), Construction of the Liberated Imagination (2010), Visiting the Father (2011) and Duck Hunting (2012).