Nikolay Yervandi Tsaturyan ( hy, Նիկոլայ Ծատուրյան; born January 8, 1945, in Yerevan) is an Armenian theatre director, actor and playwright, People's Artist of Armenia (2011), Professor. He is the Artistic Director of Vardan Ajemian State Drama Theatre of Gyumri.

Biography

Nikolay Tsaturyan is a son of Ervand Tsatouryan, a movie director. Nikolay studied at the Yerevan Institute of Theater and Fine Arts with Marat Marinosyan, and Vardan Ajemian, whom he considers to be his "maestro". He identifies himself as an

atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

. He also studied at Moscow High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors with

Georgi Danelia Georgiy Nikolayevich Daneliya ( ka, გიორგი ნიკოლოზის ძე დანელია; russian: Георгий Николаевич Данелия; 25 August 1930 – 4 April 2019), also known as Giya Daneliya ( ka, გ� ...

. He worked at

Hayfilm Armenfilm (russian: Арменфильм; hy, Արմենֆիլմ), also known as Hayfilm ( hy, Հայֆիլմ), is an Armenian film studio located in Yerevan. The studio was founded on 16 April 1923 as a production unit of the Soviet State Cinem ...

, then assisted to Yuli Raizman at Mosfilm. He was the director of

Sundukyan State Academic Theatre of Yerevan The Gabriel Sundukyan State Academic Theatre ( hy, Գաբրիել Սունդուկյանի անվան ազգային ակադեմիական թատրոն), founded on February 25, 1922 in Yerevan, is the oldest modern theatre in Armenia. Well-know ...

, the founder of "Metro" theatre. He is also well known for his leading role at "Comrade Panjouni" film. Throughout his career Nikolay directed near to 100 plays, shows and events, among them Vahagn Davtyan's "Apricot Tree" (1939), William Saroyan's " The Time of Your Life", Alexander Ostrovsky's "Crazy Money", Alexander Vampilov's " The Elder Son" (Старший сын), Hrant Margarian's & Nikolay Tsaturyan's "And Three Chairs Fell From Heaven" (1991) (Եվ երկինքեն երեք աթոռ ինկան), which won "Audience Award" at Armenian Diaspora Theater Festival in 1991, Anahit Aghasaryan's and Nikolay Tsaturyan's "Save Our Souls" (1990) (Փրկեք մեր հոգիները), which won best direction, best lead actor, best supporting actress, Gabriel Sundukyan's "Power of Money" (Փուղի զորութինը).

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