Russian and Soviet theatre directors

Sergey Vladimirovich Obraztsov (Russian: Серге́й Владимирович Образцов, 5 July (O.S. 22 June), 1901 - 8 May 1992) was a Soviet and Russian puppeteer who is credited by the Encyclopædia Britannica with "establishing puppetry as an art form in the Soviet Union.

Lev Abramovich Dodin (Russian: Лев Абрамович Додин, born 1944) is a modern Russian theater director, the leader of Saint Petersburg Maly Drama Theater.

Alexander Morfov (Bulgarian: Александър Морфов, born 9 November 1960, in Yambol) is a Bulgarian theater and cinema director.

Mark Anatolyevich Zakharov (Russian: Марк Анатольевич Захаров; born 13 October 1933) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film director and playwright, best known for his Soviet-era fantasy parable films and for his productions of plays at Moscow's Lenkom Theatre.

Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels (Yiddish: שלמה מיכאעלס‎, Russian: Cоломон (Шлойме) Михоэлс, 16 March [O.S. 4 March] 1890 – 13 January 1948) was a Soviet Jewish actor and the artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater.

Nikolay Pavlovich Okhlopkov (Russian: Никола́й Па́влович Охло́пков; 15 May 1900 – 8 January 1967) was a Soviet actor and theatre director who patterned his work after Meyerhold.

Lev Shulimovich Shekhtman (Russian: Лев Шулимович Ше́хтман; born March 10, 1951) is a Russian-American theatre director and actor.

Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (Russian: Все́волод Эми́льевич Мейерхо́льд; born German: Karl Kasimir Theodor Meiergold; 9 February [O.S. 28 January] 1874 – 2 February 1940) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer.

Yevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov (also spelled Evgeny or Eugene; Russian: Евге́ний Багратио́нович Вахта́нгов; 13 February 1883 – 29 May 1922) was a Russian actor and theatre director who founded the Vakhtangov Theatre.

Nikolai Alekseyevich Slichenko (Russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич Сличе́нко; born 27 December 1934) is a Russian singer and chief director of the Romen Theatre in Moscow.

Vyacheslav Semyonovich Spesivtsev (Russian: Вячеслав Семёнович Спесивцев; born 6 February 1943, in Moscow) is a Russian and Soviet actor and director.

Vladislav Ignatievich Strzhelchik (Russian: Владисла́в Игна́тьевич Стрже́льчик) (1921–1995) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.

Valery Vladimirovich Fokin (Russian: Валерий Владимирович Фокин) (born February 28, 1946 in Moscow) is a Russian theatrical director and writer.

Leopold Antonovich Sulerzhitsky (Russian: Леопольд Антонович Сулержицкий) (1872-1916) was a Russian theatre director, painter and pedagogue of Polish descent.

Mikhail Rasumny (May 13, 1890 in Odessa, Russian empire – February 17, 1956 in United States) was a Soviet- and American film actor.

Evgeny Sazonov (Russian: Евге́ний Сазо́нов; IPA: [evgeˈnij sazoˈnov] ; born September 27, 1936) Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR) - theater director, teacher and artistic director of Theater of Youth Creativity (TYUT), Honored Cultural Worker of the RSFSR.

Matvey Dubrovin (Matvey Grigor'evich Dubrovin) (Russian: Матве́й Григо́рьевич Дубро́вин; IPA: [matveˈj grigoˈrjevich dubroˈvin] ; born September 27, 1936) July 12, 1911 was born in Saratov, Russian Empire – died October 22, 1974 in Leningrad, USSR).

Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (Russian: Владимир Иванович Немирович-Данченко; 23 December [O.S. 11 December] 1858 – 25 April 1943, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and theatre administrator, who founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his colleague, Konstantin Stanislavski, in 1898.

Fyodor Fyodorovich Komissarzhevsky (Russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Комиссарже́вский; 23 May 1882 – 17 April 1954) or Theodore Komisarjevsky was a Russian, later British, theatrical director and designer.

Alexander Vladimirovich Galibin (Russian: Александр Владимирович Галибин, born 27 September 1955 in Leningrad).

Natalya Il'inichna Sats (sometimes spelled Natalia Satz; Russian: Наталия Ильинична Сац; 27 August [O.S. 14 August] 1903 – 18 December 1993) was a Russian stage director who ran theaters for children for many years, including the Moscow Musical Theater for Children, now named after her.

Alexander Anatolyevich Shirvindt (Russian: Александр Анатольевич Ширвиндт, born July 19, 1934) is a Soviet and Russian screen and stage actor, screenwriter, voice actor, People's Artist and Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR.

Georges Pitoëff was born on 4 September 1884 in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia), then in Russia, and died on 17 September 1939 in Bellevue, near Geneva, Switzerland.

Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov (April 16, 1901 – September 6, 1968) was an experimental theatre director and scenic designer noted for his work with the Leningrad Comedy Theatre.

Nikolai Nikolaevich Gubenko (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Губе́нко) (born 17 August 1941) is a Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter.

Yuri Alexeyevich Ardashev (Russian: Юрий Алексеевич Ардашев; born 22 January 1965) is a Russian theatre director, actor, and professional drummer.

In 1967 Vasilyev graduated from the Leningrad State Conservatory vocal class and was accepted into the troupe of the Novosibirsk Theatre of Operetta, where for eight months of the six played a major role.

Galina Borisovna Volchek (Russian: Гали́на Бори́совна Во́лчек; born December 19, 1933) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film director, actress and teacher.

Born to a Jewish family, Ginkas was a student of Georgy Tovstonogov, Ginkas has collaborated with most major theatres in Moscow and St.

Igor Olegovich Gorbachyov (Russian: И́горь Оле́гович Горбачёв; 1927–2003) was a Russian stage and film actor.

Tatiana (Tatyana) Vasilyevna Doronina (Russian: Татьяна Васильевна Доронина; born 12 September 1933) is a popular Soviet/Russian actress who has performed in movies and the theater.

Boris Evgenyevich Zakhava (1896–1976; Russian: Борис Евгеньевич Захава) was a Russian theatre director, actor and acting coach.

Anatoly Alexandrovitch Vasiliev (Russian: Анато́лий Алекса́ндрович Васи́льев; born May 4, 1942, Penza Oblast) is a noted Russian theatre director and one of the leading European contemporary stage directors.

Roman Grigoryevich Viktyuk (Russian: Роман Григорьевич Виктюк, Ukrainian: Роман Григорович Віктюк; born October 28, 1936 in Lwów, Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine) is a Russian and Ukrainian theater director, actor, screenwriter.

Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Зава́дский; 30 June 1894 - 5 April 1977) was a Russian actor and director.

Georgy Alexandrovich Tovstonogov (Russian: Георгий Александрович Товстоногов, 28 September [O.S. 15 September] 1915 – May 23, 1989) was a Russian theatre director, the leader of Saint Petersburg Bolshoi Academic Theatre of Drama (formerly Gorky Theater), which now bears his name.

Ruben Simonov (Russian: Рубен Николаевич Симонов (April 1, 1899 in Moscow – December 5, 1968 in Moscow) was a Soviet artist and director, Peoples Artist of the USSR, Professor. Awarded by the State Prize of the USSR title (1943, 1947, 1950). Simonov was born in a family of Russian-Armenians. Graduating from the Moscow State University, he then became an actor, starting his career at the Armenian drama studio in the Armenian House of Culture. In 1939 he became the chief director of the Vakhtangov Theatre. He also ruled the Armenian and Uzbek theatres of Moscow.

Alexander Yakovlevich Tairov (Russian: Александр Яковлевич Таиров; 6 July 1885 – 5 September 1950) was one of the leading innovators of theatrical art, and one of the most enduring theatre directors in Russia, and through the Soviet era.

Aleksei Dikiy (Russian: Алексей Денисович Дикий) (February 24, 1889 - October 1, 1955) was a Soviet actor and director who worked at Moscow Art Theatre and later worked with Habima Jewish theatre in Tel-Aviv.

For the director's characteristic manner Fomenko imaginative and paradoxical thinking, building performance based on the principle of ironic comparison of contrasting episodes; his works vividly theatrical and musical are different brilliant actor's ensembles.

Anatoly Vasilievich Efros (Russian: Анато́лий Васи́льевич Э́фрос; June 3, 1925, Kharkiv—January 13, 1987, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director.

Viktor Ivanovich Korshunov (Russian: Ви́ктор Ива́нович Ко́ршунов; 24 November 1929 — 17 April 2015) was a Russian actor and People's Artist of the USSR.

Aleksei Vasil'evich Loktev (Russian: Алексей Васильевич Локтев; 30 December 1939 – 17 September 2006) was a Russian and Soviet actor.

Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov (Russian: Ю́рий Петро́вич Люби́мов; 30 September [O.S. 17 September] 1917 – 5 October 2014) was a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated with the internationally renowned Taganka Theatre, which he founded in 1964.

Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov (Russian: Олег Павлович Табаков) (born 17 August 1935) is a Soviet and Russian actor and the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre.

Margarita Terekhova (Russian: Маргари́та Бори́совна Те́рехова, b. August 25, 1942, Turinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress.