VALERY ANISENKO

Head of the Republican Theatre of Belarusian Drama, actor and director (2001-2012).

Since 2012, director and artistic director of the Yakub Kolas National Academic Drama Theater.

He is known not only as a theater director, but also as a director of TV feature films such as The Hunt for the Last Crane based on the story by A. Zhuk (1986), The Seagull's Cry by A. Osipenko (1984), The Ghost by N. Arakhovsky (1991). He also made documentary video films Black Lives of Belarus (1990), Kadish (1992), My Edinburgh (1996).

Byelorussian radio produced about 100 performances of the best works of Belarusian literature - A.Adamovich, V.Bykov, N.Gilevich, V.Korotkevich, B.Sachenko, I.Chigrinov, I.Shamyakin, etc., won the State Award of the BSSR for achievements in radio theater - radio plays upon Vasil Bykov's works "V Tumane" and "Karier".

He is known in the theatrical world as a wonderful lecturer and teacher. He has delivered his lectures not only in Belarus, but also in other countries. He lectured on Shakespeare's plays (Richard, Macbeth, Hamlet) in the official program of the XXVIII International Festival in Spain (Barcelona and Sitches).

He began his pedagogical activity in 1972 at the Belarusian Institute of Theatre and Art. Since 1996 he has been a professor of the department of theater at the Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts. In 2002, he graduated from a course of perfectly trained professionals, two-thirds of which formed a significant part of the troupe of the Republican Theatre of Belarusian Dramaturgy, where they act both as actors and as co-directors of a number of productions. They are Anna Arinich-Anienko, Veronika Buslaeva, Alexander Marchenko, Maxim Ponazatchenko and Natalia Kholodovich. Among the students of V. Anisenko (he trained more than a hundred people in all) there are such famous actors as the People's Artist of Belarus A. Tkachenok, film director Sergey Shulga, actors Oleg Korotkevich, Valentina Bogdanova, Igor Nikolayev, Andrey Karmunin, Valeria Voychenko, playwright Andrey Karelin and many others.

Professor of the Belarusian Academy of Arts, academician of the International Academy of Slavic Education Cyrillic-Methodevsky.

THEATRICAL WORKS

"His whole life" by E.Gabrilovich (Theatre-studio of cinema actor)

"Masheka" by N. Arakhovsky (Brest Regional Drama Theatre)

"Hamlet" by W. Shakespeare (Yanka Kupala National Academic Drama Theatre)

"Only Fools Are Sad" by D. Almagor

"Chernobyl Prayer" by S. Alexievich

"Pontius Pilate" by A. Kureichik

"Bergman's Women" by N. Rudkovsky

PRIZES AND AWARDS

Winner of the State Prize of the Republic of Belarus "For Spiritual Revival" (1990).

Laureate of the Special Prize of the President of the Republic of Belarus (2003)

The State Prize winner of the Republic of Belarus "For Spiritual Revival" (2005).