Moscow Art Theatre School

Moscow Art Theatre School

Школа-студия (институт) имени Вл. И. Немировича-Данченко при МХАТ имени А. П. Чехова
Type	studio school
Established	26 April 1943
Address	6 Tverskaya Street , Moscow , Russia 55°45′35″N 37°36′45″E / 55.7597°N 37.6124°E / 55.7597; 37.6124
Website	artsacademy.ru

Moscow Art Theatre School (Russian: Школа-студия МХАТ, romanized: Shkola-studiya MKhAT) is the studio school of the Moscow Art Theatre. It is a state educational institution that has existed since 1943. The initiator of the studio school was Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.^[1]

Open three faculties — the cast (training — 4 years, the competition — 30 per place), staging (training — 5 years, the contest — 3 persons per place) and Producer (training — 5 years, the competition — 4 persons per place). Form of study — full-time.^[2]

The idea of the studio-school was expressed for the first time at the meeting of the leaders of Moscow Art Theater on March 21, 1943.^[3] It was the last will of the director and pedagogue Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, who died of a heart attack a month later, April 25, 1943. The following day (April 26, 1943), a special resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was published, which contained a clause relating to the creation of the studio school.

The studio-school was inaugurated on October 20, 1943. The first rector was the theater director and critic Vassili Grigorievich Sakhnovski. The first class consisted of 27 students graduating in 1947.^[4]

In the 1940s, there was just one faculty for drama theater and cinema actors. In 1987, a new branch for theater painters was opened under the direction of Valeri Yakovlevich Levental. During 1989, a new department for artist-technologists for stage costume was opened under the direction of the People's Artist of Russia Eleonora Petrovna Maklakova. The Department for lighting artists was opened in 1988.

In 1991, a department of theater management was established in the theatre school. In 2005, the department was transformed into a producer faculty.

(in chronological order)^[1]

• Vasily Sahnovsky (1943–1945)
• Veniamin Radomyslensky (1945–1980)
• Nikolai Alekseev (1980–1983)
• Vadim Krupitsky (1984–1986)
• Oleg Tabakov (1986–2000)^[5]
• Anatoly Smelyansky (2000–2013)
• Igor Zolotovitsky (2013–present)

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