Soviet Scene Designers
Alexandeer Yakovlevich Golovin
illustrater and easel painter
designed Masquerade by Lermonotov, directed by Meyerhold at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg
Mark Grigorievich Rozovsky
director and dramaturg at Moscow Art Theatre in 1980's
founder of Nash Dom (Our House) at Moscow University
wrote Strider (a.k.a Story of a Horse)
founded Nikitsky Vorot Theatre in Moscow
Natalia Sats
worked with others on childrens variety programs
founded Moscow Children's Theatre in a former movie house on Tverskaya UI, became the world's first company devoted exclusively to live theatre for children Central Children's Theatre
1965 opened Moscow State Children's Musical Theatre
Yuri Liubimov
graudated from Vakhtangov Theatre school
Founder/artistic director of new company at Taganka theatre, Moscow (located in a working class district of Moscow)
1983-1989 exiled in the west; free lance directing at Milan Opera, ART
Directed shows such as The Three Sisters, Crime and Punishment, Boris Godunov
Mark Rozovsky
Founded Nash Dom, a university theatre group
1983 founded Studio Theatre on Nikitsky Vorot in Moscow (an amateur group performing in tiny spaces)
Leon Bakst
co-founder (with Serge Diaghilev) of Mir Isskustvo (World of Art)
Edvard Stanislavovich Radzinsky
historian and playwright
1989 went from writing plays to writing internationally acclaimed hisotry books
married actress Tatiana Doronina
India, My Dream premiered at Moscow TYUZ
Daniel Kharms
1972 Elizaveta Bam
a dissident dramatists
Oberiu (obedience Realnovo Iskussvo) or Association for Real Art; banned in 1937
executed
Georgi Tovstonogov
directed original production of Rozovsky's Strider
assistant direcotr and actor in Tblisi
Free-lance directing in Moscow Theatres
AD Lenin Komsomol Theatre in Moscow
AD Bolshoi Dramatic Theatre in Leningrad
Robert Sturua
Rustabeli Theatre, Tblisi, Georgia
Georgia theatre director and renowned painter
Directed a lot of the Shakespeare
2011 fired from his artistic directorship of the Rustaveli Theatre for "xenophobia"
Alexander Tyshler
King Lear at State jewish Theatre
Grigory Israelovich Gorin
popular author of humorous short stories and screenplays
most popular play Forget Herostratus!
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
served in WW2 army
Bolshevik
wrote novles, plays and non-fiction that exposed horors of "The gulag Archipelgo" (the Communist forced soviet labor camp)
Internationally known
work heavily censored
forced into exile in the West (Switzerland)
Oleg Efremov
soulmates with Peter sellers
founder/artistic director of Sovremennik (Contemporary) Theatre in Moscow
artistic director at Moscow Art Theatre
1987 split MAT into two separate units; he remained at original house on Kamergersky
Succeeded by Oleg Tabakov
Genrietta (Geta) Yanovskaya and Kama Kinkas
Husband and wife team
Did freelance work
Worked at Moscow Theatre for Young Audiences
many adaptations of Chekov short stories by son Daniel Ginkas
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Galin
wrote plays that were nostalgic and gritty
adapted easily to writing for post-soviet audiences
play Retro was internationally popular
Stars in the Morning Sky premiered at Leningrad Maly, directed by lev Dodin (play about 1980 olympic games in Moscow, officials had streets "cleansed" of streetwalkers by placing them to barracks in the suburbs
Andrei Alexeivich Amalrik
playwright born in Moscow, son of film studio lighting technicial who served in WW2
he and mother evacuated to Orenburg where he experienced malnourishment
Arrested as a "parasite"(non-conforming intellectual) and exiled to Siberia
Nose! Nose? No-se!
Anatoly Efros
graduated from GITIS
staff director at Central Children's Theatre in Moscow
AD at Lenin Komsomol Theatre in Moscow
staff director at Malaya Bronnaya Theatre in Moscow
Lev Dodin
Maly Drama theatre, Leningrad/St. Petersburg
artistic director, Leningrad Maly Drama Theatre
tours abroad
recieved many awards and recognition
Chinghiz Torekulovich Aitmatov
prominent author of short stories and novels; environmentalist
leading Kirghiz novelist
The Ascent of Mt Fuji (with Katali Mukhamedzhanov)
Soviet Theatre Administration in the 1970's-80's
USSR had 1/4th of all theaters in the world: 30,000 full-time employed actors, 110 million spectators per year, virtually all rotating repertory
theaters categorized by type of production and funding status
Moscow Unification Bureau of Theatre Spectacles
Roman Viktyuk
worked at Satyrikon Theatre in Moscow
Directed The Maids by Jean Genet which was regarded as 1st major manifestation of gay theatre in USSR Russia
show Salome is considered signature production and was directed at Roman Viktyuk Theatre