Ajrat Abusahmanov

Actor, director, Merited Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan, State Prize-winning theatre-maker. Born in 1974 in Ufa, capital of the Republic, Russian Federation, he studied at Ufa Art College and the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts. He worked as a director at the New Drama Theatre in Moscow, then joined the company of Mazhit Gafuri Bashkir Academic Drama Theatre in Ufa, where he was an actor from 1995 to 1998, a full-time director from 2003-2004 and 2012-2019, and a principal director from 2005-2012. He has been the theatre's principal director since 2019. His productions have participated in numerous theatre festivals in Bashkortostan, Russia and abroad and have won many prestigious creative awards.