Nikolay Kolyada
Soviet and Russian playwright, theatre director, actor · Russia · On the map · Writers · Lived 1957 to 2026 · aged 68
Nikolay Vladimirovich Kolyada was a Russian actor, theatre director, writer, playwright, and teacher. Theatre critic John Freedman named Kolyada as one of several dramatists and directors who might be designated as "fathers" or "mothers" of Russia's contemporary theatre movement..
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Kolyada Theatre company in the foyer of the Theatre Center "Na Strastnom" in Moscow, January 2013
Kolyada as the Ghost of Hamlet's Father during the Moscow tour, 2014
Kolyada in the title role of King Lear at Kolyada Theatre, Yekaterinburg, 2024
Kolyada at the «Biblionight» event at the Belinsky Library in Yekaterinburg, 2017Awards
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The New York Times said that Kolyada's work has made Yekaterinburg a "center of modern drama". Kolyada was one of the first Russian playwrights to address homosexuality in his work, especially in Slingshot.
