LABORATORY
of young composers and playwrights
Composers
Ivan Abramov
Saint-Petersburg Conservatory graduate (professor Sergei Slonimsky’s class). Russian Composers Union’s youth branch member.
Andrew Besogonov
Moscow Conservatory graduate, postgraduate at the moment (professor Yuri Kasparov’s class).
Elmir Nizamov
Kazan Conservatory graduate. Russian Composers Union member, Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra’s composer-in-residence.
Alina Podzorova
Moscow Conservatory graduate (professor Yuri Vorontsov’s class). Valery Gergiev Charitable Foundation scholar. Moscow Composers Union member.
Natalia Prokopenko
Moscow Conservatory graduate (professor Yuri Vorontsov’s class). Valery Gergiev Charitable Foundation scholar. Moscow Composers Union member.
Dmitry Suvorov
Gnessin State Musical College graduate (professor Gennady Chernov’s class). The Moscow Government prize laureat, the All-Russian D.D.Shostakovich Composers Competition laureat.
Igor Kholopov
State Musical Pedagogical Institute graduate, where he teaches musicology and composition. Moscow Composers Union member.
Kirill Shirokov
Moscow Conservatory former student. The Stanislavsky Electrotheatre orchestra inspector, musis and interdisciplinary events curator.
Playwrights
Natalia Borenko
Russian State Performing Arts Institute graduate. Social theatre activist, playwright at the School of Documentary Theatre for teenagers.
Maria Zelinskaya
Scriptwriter, playwright, Moscow New Cinema School screenwriting master. Participant at the theatre social projects for children, teenagers, prisoners and elderly people at nursing homes.
Artem Zolotarev
Scriptwriter, playwright. Thrice runner-up of the Debutants’ Pitching at the Cinematographers Union’s Youth Center, leading Cinema League and ArtDoydu scriptwriter.
Eugeny Kazachkov
Scriptwriter, playwright, teacher. One of the Theatre.Doc contributors. The Lubimovka Young Russian Playwrights Festival artistic director (since 2013).
Maria Ogneva
Yaroslavl State Theatre Institute and Russian State Performing Arts Institute graduate. Scriptwriter, playwright, translator, teacher.
Valery Pecheikin
Scriptwriter, playwright. One of the Moscow Gogol Center authors. Participant of the Lubimovka Young Russian Playwrights Festival and the Young Writers Festival and Rough Cuts organized by the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Gulnara Sapargalieva
VGIK Scenario and cinematology faculty graduate. Scriptwriter, playwright, translator, Class Act expert. TV series scriptwriter for STS, TNT etc.
Dana Sideros
Poetess, blogger, web poetry practitioner. Author of two poem books and “The living wall” play. NOVA prize laureate, poetry concerts and festivals participant.
