Lev Dodin

Lev Dodin

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

Biography

Lev Dodin was born in Siberia in 1944. He first experienced theatrical production as a child at the Leningrad Young Viewers’ Theatre directed by Matvey Grigorievich Dubrovin. Studied at Leningrad Institute for Theatre, Music and Cinema under Boris Zon and Georgy Tovstonogov which he graduated in 1966.

Between 1966 and 1982 he was a guest director in different theaters of Russia and abroad including "Leningrad Young Viewers’ Theatre", Gorky Theater, MKhAT, Finnish National Theatre, Salzburg Festival, Florence Musical May festival, Milan La Scala.

In 1975 he started to work with Maly Drama Theater. In 1982 he became the artistic director of the theater and has led the theater since then.

Among Dodin' major works are:
*"Brothers and Sisters" by Fedor Abramov - a monumental show more than 8 hours long;
*"The House" by Fedor Abramov
*Lord of the Flies by William Golding
*"Stars in the Morning Sky by Alexander Galin
*"Chevengur" by Andrei Platonov
*The Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky
*The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov and many others.

Dodin received USSR State Prize (1986) and Russia State prize (1993).

External links

* [http://www.mdt-dodin.ru/english/dodin/index.htm Dodin's page on his theater site]


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