Theater director and acting teacher Mikhail Gruzdov died. The cause of death and other details were not disclosed. This was announced by Dailes Theater on Facebook (owner Meta was considered extremist and banned in Russia).
“He will forever remain a respected and beloved director of actors and theater figures. We sympathize with the family of Mikhail Gruzdov, as well as the whole theater family, who are fans of his talent, ”the theater said.
Mikhail Gruzdov was born in 1953 in Valmiera, Latvia. He studied at the directing department of the Evgeny Vakhtangov Theater Institute, St. Petersburg theater studio “Crossroads”, and also worked in St. He taught at the Petersburg Theater Academy. He began working in Latvia in the 1990s, and in 2002 became the artistic director and later the main director of the Dailes Theatre. In addition, Gruzdov collaborated with the New Riga Theater, the Riga Russian Theater. Mikhail Chekhov and others.