The director of theater.doc Elena Gremina died

At the age of 61, the playwright, director of theater.doc, Elena Gremina, died. This was reported on her FB page journalist Zoya Svetova.

Recently, Gremin was in the hospital. A month and a half ago, April 1, her husband died - the Hudor of theater, director Mikhail Ugarov .

Gremin was born on November 20, 1956 in Moscow in the family of filmmaker Anatoly Grebnev. The younger sister of the film director Alexander Mindadze. She graduated from the Drama of the Literary Institute. Performances for Gremina’s plays were staged in Moscow (Pushkin Theater, Ermolova Theater), St. Petersburg (theater named after Komissarzhevskaya), Saratov, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk and other cities of the country.

Theater.doc Gremin and Ugarov founded in 2002 . The theater puts the plays of Gremin and other authors written using the Werbatim technique (Latin Verbatim - literally). Replicas of the heroes of these plays are literally fixed monologues or dialogs from life. Among the performances based on the Gremin Players staged in this theater Ugarov are September.Doc (2005) about the capture of hostages in Beslan and “Eighteen Hour” (2010) about the death of Sergei Magnitsky.

In 2013, Gremin herself acted as a director, putting a performance in the theater on her play "150 reasons not to defend their homeland." In 2014, Ugarov shot the Gremane feature film "Brothers Ch" according to the scenario.

Gremin acted as a co -organizer of the Festivals "New Drama", "New Play", "Lyubimovka", "Cinema.doc".

Since the late 2000s, the authorities in every way prevented the work of the theater.doc. The theater repeatedly deprived the premises , the prosecutor's office fined him , accusing him of violating the fire rules, the police repeatedly broke off the events, and at the end of 2014they held a search in the theater . In October 2016, Ugarova was not released abroad without explanation.