Olga Stanislavovna MUKHINA

  • Europe
  • Eastern Europe
  • Russia
Russian

Olga Stanislavovna MUKHINA (born 1970, Moscow) has written five plays which have been produced in Russia and elsewhere, and have been translated into English, French, German, Cezch, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Croatian and Korean. Her play Tanya-Tanya is currently running at five different venues in Eastern Europe, including Fomenko's Workshop in Moscow, the Satire Theater in St. Petersburg, and Prague's On Zabrodle. The play received the First Drama Debut Award in the Moscow Debuts Festival, and Ms. Mukhina was proclaimed best playwright by the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. Her play Yu was produced in Moscow and Tatarstan, and won an award from the magazine Playwright. Her plays have been published in magazines such as Playwright and Contemporary Drama. She currently works as a program editor for the TV channel TNT. Her participation in the IWP is supported by the United States Information Agency.

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