Ekaterina Elanskaya

Born in Moscow in the family I.Ya. Sudakova and K.N. Elanskoy. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (10/16/1991). People's Artist of Russia (03.09.1999). Mother - Claudia Nikolaevna Elanskaya (1898-1972), actress of the Moscow Art Theater, People's Artist of the USSR. Father - Sudakov Ilya Yakovlevich (1890-1969), People's Artist of the RSFSR, actor, director, teacher of GITIS. After graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School (course AM Karev), she worked at the Maly Theater, then at the Theater. Mayakovsky. She studied at GITIS, graduated from the graduate school at the M.O. Knebel In 1976-1978 - Director in the Literary and Dramatic Theater of the WTO, staging the play "The Coast" with artists from different Moscow theaters by Y. Bondarev. In 1981 she headed the Moscow theater "Sphere", conceived by her as an experimental and poetic. In the early 1980s, the theater was located in the DK Kauchuk factory on Plyushchikha, in 1984 it moved to a purpose-built building in the Hermitage garden. Has put more than 15 performances.