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People and Puppets:
| Anna Victorova. Art Director. |
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 A
graduate of St. Petersburg Theatre Academy on Mokhovaya Street. The puppet
theatre is an ancestral calling for her: her grandfather Pavel Ivanovich
Victorov has worked in the city’s Grand Puppet Theatre. In 1995-1996 she
participated as puppet master and actress in the play “Song
of the Volga” under the direction of Rezo Gabriadze in the Satire
Theatre on Vasilievsky Island. “Rider
Cuprum”. is the creation of Anna’s imagination. Aside from Kukolny
Format, she works in a number
of other St. Petersburg theatres, as well as in those outside
her native city. She is a laureate of the Golden Mask national theatrical
award (2005).
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| Viktor Antonov. Artist and teñhnologist. |
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 He
can do anything in puppet theatre. An outstanding theatre technologist
immortalized by the depiction of one of his play’s characters on the cover
a puppetry technique textbook. This play, called “Circus on Strings”,
is a solo program of marionette tricks that has been applauded to by spectators
in many countries. Viktor has staged “The Cat That…” in the genre of shadow
theatre...
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| Olga Firsova, actress. |
 Laureate
of the Zhuravliov reader’s competition in Moscow, performs in the programmes
of such radio stations as Baltika, Sputnik, Radio Studio, and others. Acts
in cinema. “Once I was running down a school hallway and fell. A female
technical worker was washing the floor and I fell into her bucket with water.
She abused me verbally and spanked me with a wet rag. I began feeling unconfident
since then. That’s why I decided to become an actress, to overcome my insecurities.” |
| Svetlana Dorozhko, actress. |
 According
to Svetlana, the main task of her life is bringing up her son Denis. |
| Anastasia Zorina, actress. |
 She
became involved with puppets even before her birth (her mother Marina Zorina
was a puppet artist). In 1999 she graduated from a theatre school in Nizhnny
Novgorod as a puppet theatre actress. She diagnoses herself as a workaholic
puppet artist with a complicated personality. |
| Iana Sarafannikova, actress. |
 A
graduate of the St. Petersburg Theatre Academy. Nominee of Golden Sophite
2003 award. Works in the Puppet Fairy Tale Theatre. |
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Irina Zimina, actress.
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 A
graduate of St. Petersburg Theatre Academy. Works at the Demmeni Theatre.
Performed as Chukhonka Neva in “Rider Cuprum”. |
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Olga Fedorova, puppet-actress. |
 A SPbGATI (Saint Petersburg Academy of Dramatic Art) graduate, she attended a course of I.A.Zaykin. She is a classmate and a friend of Irina Zimina. her favourite play is a "Horseman Ñuprum" and each time playing this she is surprised being involved into it. The basic working place is a puppet theatre named after E.S.Demmeni. Fedorova also teaches in the Theatrical Academy in Mokhovaya.
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Roman Oushakov, actor.
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 Born
and educated in St. Petersburg. Worked in Moscow, but came back home after
7 years. After his return Roman has worked in Molodezhny Theatre, acted
in cinema and became involved with puppets. |
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Aleksei Smirnov, actor.
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 A
graduate of St. Petersburg Theatre Academy and of Yaroslavl State Theatre
Institute. Performed as Sapo in the play “Picnic”. Eugene in “Rider Cuprum”. |
| Peter Vasilyev, actor. |
 Born,
educated and currently living in St. Petersburg. In 1992, at the age of
14, he was enrolled in the city’s First (and only) Drama Lyceum, which was
conceived to educate its students in the spirit of the famous Lyceum in
Tsarskoye Selo attended by A.S. Pushkin. But after the education was over,
he had neither a middle professional school diploma nor a feeling of overwhelming
knowledge. Studies were continued at the Theatre Arts Academy’s Puppet Theatre
Faculty. After the Academy Peter works at the Demmeni Theatre, then on St.
Petersburg television in the “Great Festival” programme. He works in Germany.
Laureate of Golden Sophite - St. Petersburg theatre award, best debut-2000.
Performed as Peter I in “Rider Cuprum”. |
| Mitya Tarasevich, actor. |
I was born in a nice city of Irkutsk (Close to Baikal Lake) and studied in the same place! I’m actor of a puppet theatre by training! In Petersburg I work at the oldest city theatre - a puppet theatre named after E.S.Demmeni. |
| Olga Donec, actress. |
I was graduated from Irkutsk Drama School and am an Actor of drama theatre and cinema (2000-2004) by training. I have worked at the drama theatre “Galerka” in Omsk for one year (2004-2005). As for now I’m a part-time student at SPbGATI (Saint Petersburg Academy of Dramatic Art) and I’m going to be an actor of a puppet theatre by training. In my childhood I used to play dolls and tell verses standing on a chair, here is the result!! |
| Timofei Osipenko, actor. |
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Masha Burlakova, Theatrical Production Manager |
 She was graduated from SPbGATI (Saint Petersburg Academy of Dramatic Art), the course of V.M.Sovetov.
Masha is a very good production manager. By the way of argument she is an engineering trust of the “Puppet format”.
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Elena Gromova |
 A student of SPbGATI (Saint Petersburg Academy of Dramatic Art).
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Maxim Romashina, lighter.
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Masha Podgornova, International project supervisor and our companion-in-arms. |
 A graduate of Theatre History and Management Department of MAAT Studio School (Moscow Academic Art Theatre). She takes a great interest in travelling around the world – from China to Los Angeles, more often by hitch-hiking. Masha brings up a turtle named Mafusail. She is fond of France (Emil Zolya, Flaubert, impressionists, cheese, white wine...) but believes in Scarlet sails from the Gulf of Finland.
An important detail: sometimes Maria carries a Child of October Sign with an image of young Lenin with curly hair. And one more thing: she jumps with parachute.
In general, our meeting on a platform of the Leningrad railway station in 6 o'clock in the morning on April, 9th, 2005 was not accidental when she worked at the festival «Gold Mask» and was a curator of the "Doll’s format». The «Gold Mask» was presented to us by Dapkunayte but sometimes it seems to be Masha.
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| Katherina Balistrelli, Impresario in the Western Europe |
 She was born in a solar town Palermo but loves Saint Petersburg intensely. She speaks Russian perfectly well and translates Russian books into Italian. She is fond of theatre. Once she has attended our play "Horseman CUPRUM" in MDT and could not forget it. And when two years later she has been engaged in a puppet theatre she decided to call Russian collective which played performance about the tsar who has opened a window to Europe. We haven’t managed yet to bring “Peter I” to Sicily but an “Old Pawnbroker” created furor there on the Christmas eve 2007 thanks to Katherina. Such a nice legend...
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| Elizaveta Bogoslovskaya. Founder, Director |
 Journalist
by profession, Accomplished Cultural Worker of Russia. Considers her work
in “Song of the Volga” project under the leadership of Georgian director
Rezo Gabriadze to be among her life’s luckiest circumstances. A fan of Orson
Welles, Jack Nicholson and Andrei Krasko. |
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Timur Bekmambetov. Producer
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 Film
director. His first full-length film, “Peshawar Waltz” (came out in the
U.S. on videotape in 1994 under the title “Fleeing Afghanistan”) won a prize
for the best producer’s work at an international festival in Karlovy Vary,
Czech Republic. The director was at the same time pursuing projects in advertisement
(historical parable reels for Imperial bank, Alfa Bank and Slavyansky bank
commercials, and many others). In 2000 he made an historical adventure film
named “Gladiatrix” (shown under the name “Arena” in the U.S.). In 2002 he
created a documentary-fictional film called “GAZ, the Russian Machines”.
Known in Russia’s show business for his video clips of Yulia Chicherina’s
songs. Academician of the Russian Academy of Advertisement. Director of
“Night Watch” (2004). |
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The old woman. (Crime and punishment) |
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Poor Alena Ivanovna, usurer which nobody has regretted.
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The tourist. (Fairy tale about crocodiles)
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The big glutton (Robin the Bobbin)
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...And yet he complained that his stomach wasn't
full.
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THE CAT THAT
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...wonders where he pleases and walks by himself... |
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Stretcher-bearer (PICNIC)
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| Needs wonded... Better killed... |
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