Yelena Stepanenko

Conversation actress. Honored Artist of Russia (1995). She dreamed of becoming an actress from early childhood: from the age of three she sang, danced, recited poems, participated in amateur performances. After graduating from school, she studied at the School of Arts for a year. In 1972, she arrived in Moscow and entered GITIS at the department of actors in musical theater. Since 1979, she has performed at leading concert venues in Moscow and other cities of the country. In 1985, she won the title of laureate of the All-Russian Competition of Artists of Humorous Genres, showing a number of the most interesting, original, artistic and original numbers: a parody of the Blue Light (by M. Zadornov, A. Khait), the monologue "Nuclear Button" (M. Zadornov) , "The Ideal Woman" (M. Zadornov), "Women Who Sing" (G. Terikov) and many others. In 2001, her solo program, consisting of monologues of many famous authors (Mikhail Zadornov, Lyon Izmailov, etc.), came out. In addition to performing on theatrical stages, Elena Stepanenko has toured extensively, and since 2001 has appeared on television as a leading author's program ("Kyshkin House "and others).