Mikheil Ivanovich Tumanishvili ( ka, მიხეილ თუმანიშვილი), born 6 february 1921, died 11 May 1996, was a

Georgian Georgian may refer to: Common meanings * Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) ** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group ** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians **Georgian scripts, three scrip ...

theater director A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors a ...

and teacher. He was a student of

Georgy Tovstonogov Georgy Aleksandrovich Tovstonogov (russian: Георгий Александрович Товстоногов, – 23 May 1989) was a Russian- Georgian theatre director. He was the leader of the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater which was renamed afte ...

at the Tbilisi State Theater Institute and graduated in 1948. Tumanishvili is the founder of 1978 established Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre in

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million p ...

. As a director, his work was mostly based on improvisation.Nagy, Peter & Rouyer, Phillippe & Rubin, Don: "World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Volume 1: Europe", p. 332. Taylor Francis Ltd, 2001. .

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External links

Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre Official Homepage
1921 births 1996 deaths Burials at Didube Pantheon Theatre people from Tbilisi Theatre directors from Georgia (country) Recipients of the USSR State Prize Soviet theatre directors {{theat-director-stub