Marina Brusnikina became artistic director of the Praktika theater

Marina Brusnikina became the artistic director of the Praktika Theater, said . the Moscow Department of Culture

In this position, she will succeed her husband, Dmitry Brusnikin, who died in early August. Boris The director is still Mezdrich, who was fired from the Novosibirsk Opera in 2015 because of the production of the opera Tannhäuser.

Maria Brusnikina graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School and in 1985 was accepted into the Moscow Art Theater troupe. Currently, she is an assistant to the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov and heads the stage speech and vocal department of the Moscow Art Theater School. At the Praktika Theater, she staged the performances The Man from Podolsk Seryozha is Very Dumb and Natasha's Dream.

Dmitry Brusnikin died on August 9 at the age of 60. He was born in 1957 in Potsdam. In 1982, Brusnikin graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School, was accepted into the Moscow Art Theater troupe and began teaching at the Studio School, first as an assistant, and then as a teacher. Since 1993, the director taught at the Moscow Art Theater School as a master of the course. In 1999, 2003 and 2007, he took a course together with actor and director Roman Kozak.

Brusnikin became the director of the Praktika Theater in May 2018, it became known about his transfer to the position of artistic director of the theater on August 8. The director of the "Practice" was a cultural figure, theater manager Boris Mezdrich.