Daria Nosik
Daria Nosik made her debut in film with her twin sister Katerina at the age of 12 in 1996. The occasion was Gennady Poloka's The Return of the Bronenosets. Since then she has participated in over 70 film and television projects as an actor in Russia and Europe. With Katerina she has directed three film shorts, We Split an Orange (2012), Kholivar (2013), and Casting for a Russian Ballerina (2018).
Born in Moscow, she is the daughter of popular actor Vladimir Nosik and art historian Elena Zinichev, and she studied acting at the Shchepkin Institute in Moscow from 2003 to 2007. Daria has lived in Vienna, Austria, since 2017.
She first worked with Oksana Mysina in 2013/2014 in a stage production of Elfriede Jelinek's Death and the Maiden in Moscow. After that, the two lost touch with one another, but a chance meeting in a dead-end Viennese alleyway in 2023 unexpectedly renewed their friendship and professional collaboration.
Elena Sanina
Elena Sanina was born in Moscow, and graduated from the Yaroslavl Theater Institute in 2008. Since 2010 she has studied and taught stage speech. She was a founding member of the Maly Drama Theater on Bolshoi Serpukhovskoi Street (2008-2014) and of Theater 31 (2013-2019), both in Moscow. She worked as an actress in the Physical Theater Laboratory from 2017 to 2019. She has worked closely with her life partner director Oksana Glazunova for 15 years. She and Oksana have lived in Bulgaria since 2021.
She first worked with Oksana Mysina on a staged reading of Vadim Levnov's The Bloody Lady Daria Saltykova in the Open Story project of the Russian Theater Union in Moscow in 2013.
Vladimir Ushakov
Vladimir Ushakov is the founder and artistic director of the Belarusian Contemporary Art Theater (2004-2021). He was born June 16, 1963, in Tomsk, Soviet Union, and began his acting career at the Tashkent Film Actor Theater in 1987. In 1990 he went home to Belarus to work at the Gomel Drama Theatre, and began directing at the Gomel University theater. He been working at the Gomel Independent Theatre in 1995, and began acting at Moscow's Contemporary Play School in 1999. Collaborating with the Yanka Kupala Belarusian National Theater, Vladimir created the Open Format festival in Minsk in 2008. On September 25, 2004, he founded the Belarusian Theater of Contemporary Art, a private theater that he ran for 17 years. For the last 5 years, the theater stage performances on social and political topics opposing the regime of Alexander Lukashenko. The authorities began a campaign of harassment in 2018, and in 2021, the theater was banned by the Belarusian authorities. Ushakov was forced to leave the country in April 2021, moving to Kyiv, Ukraine. For 11 months in the 2021-2022 season, he ran the Belarusian Theater in Kyiv, staging three productions. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, he fled to Helsinki, Finland, on March 5, 2022, and received international protection from the Artists at Risk project. In Helsinki, he has staged three production about the war in Ukraine, the revolution in Belarus, and about refugees in Finland.
Ushakov and Oksana Mysina first crossed paths when he produced a tour of Oksana's production of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza to the Open Format Festival in Minsk, Belarus, in 2003.
Oksana Glazunova
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Oksana Glazunova attended directing courses at GITIS (Russian Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS) under the guidance of the famed directing pedagogue Oleg Kudryashov in 1999-2000. She graduated from the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts in the Department of Directing and Acting in 2009. She founded the 31st Reality Theater Studio in 2007, renaming it Theater 31 in 2009, and closed it in 2017. Between 2005 and 2017 she staged 11 productions in Moscow, showing particular affection for plays by Vadim Levanov and Tennessee Williams. Since 2015 she has conducted master classes in oratory, acting, directing and theater pedagogy. She relocated from Russia to Bulgaria with her life partner Elena Sanina in 2021.
Ksenia
Peretrukhina
Ksenia Peretrukhina is a theater and film designer, and a graphic artist. Born in Moscow, she has degrees from the film history department of VGIK (the Russian Film Academy); the School of Contemporary Art at the Russian State Humanitarian University; and the George Soros Foundation School of Contemporary Art.
She was director of the PUSTO street festival of video art from 2002 to 2009.
As a designer she has participated in Russian and international exhibition projects, and has been nominated for a Black Square in the field of contemporary art. She has designed productions at the Moscow Art Theater, the Stanislavsky Drama Theater, Teatr.doc, the Playwright and Director Center, the Taganka Theater, the Bulgarian National Theater, and many other venues, winning a Golden Mask award for her work at Moscow's Theater of Nations in 2018. She frequently designs productions of plays written by her husband Mikhail Durnenkov.
With support from the Artists at Risk program, she and Durnenkov have been based in Helsinki, Finland, since 2022.
