Who we are

Heads of department

Akelyeva Oksana

Dean of the Stage Design Faculty

Belousov Taras

Dean of the Acting faculty

Granitova-Lavrovskaya Ekateryna

Dean of the Directing faculty

Knyazeva Alexandra

Dean of the Producing faculty

Kruzhalov Andrey

Dean of the Ballet Master faculty

Odinokova Anna

Dean of the Variety show faculty

Sopolyov Timofey

Dean of the Musical Theatre faculty

Zaychikova Olga

Dean of the Theatre Studies Faculty

Tutors in various disciplines

Bartoshevich Alexey

Head of the History of Foreign Theatre Department.

Bertman Dmitriy

Head of the Music Theatre Acting and Directing Department

Lyubimov Boris

Head of the GITIS History of the Russian Theater Department

Mamedov Elshan

Head of the Stage Arts Producing and Management Department

Morozov Stanislav

Head of the Stage Design Department

Nemchinsky Maximilian

Head of the Circus Directing Department

Ovchinnikov Vladimir

Head of the sound engineering department

Pankov Vladimir

Head of the Variety show Department

Sinyavskaya Tamara

Head of the Vocal Art Department

Vyacheslav Gordeev

Head of the Department of Choreography

Yashin Sergei

Head of the Acting department

Zakirov Aydar

Head of the Stage Movement department

Zhenovach Sergey

Head of the Drama Directing Department

Mamedov Elshan

Head of the Stage Arts Producing and Management Department

Elshan Mamedov has graduated from Theater History & Criticism Program at GITIS in 1989. During his education in GITIS, he created a theater-lab “Timbre”.

In 1992 he completed his postgraduate study in Art History parallel to his education in Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (focused on Czech theater avant-garde in 1960s).

From 1994 to 1996 he took courses dedicated to French language and French studies at Moscow State Linguistic University. Which helped him to translate numerous French plays in Russian language.

In 1993 he launched “Independent Theater Project”.

Till 2000 Elshan Mamedov successfully combined both careers: of theater producer and Head of production and advertising structures of Mosfilm film concern and MediaMost holding.

In 2005 he created one of the largest Russian authoring agencies “NTP.The Independent Theatre Project agency”. The agency cooperates with well-known playwrights from Europe and the U.S. together with the leading author’s agencies.

Since 2017 he has been teaching at the Theater Production Department of GITIS.

With the direct participation of Elshan Mamedov GITIS Publishing House has published books of the “Drama Theater” series: a collection of plays “Dad. Mom. Son” by Florian Zeller and a collection of plays by Neil Simon “Funs and other plays”.

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