Kathryn Syssoyeva

Director

An artist-scholar, her specialities include the history, theory and practices of Russian theater (early twentieth century avant-garde and contemporary), as well as issues of actor training and curriculum development. Her dissertation, Meyerhold and Stanislavsky at Povarskaia Street: Art, Money, Politics and the Birth of Laboratory Theatre, was supported by a 2003 Fulbright Fellowship and a 2004 Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. Publications include Pig Iron: a Case Study in Contemporary Collective Creation and The Lives and Deaths of Collective Creation.

As a theater practitioner and filmmaker, Kathryn has worked in cross-cultural production since 1990. As a teacher of acting, stage movement, and Theatrical Biomechanics, she has taught at Stanford University, Yale School of Drama, privately in New York City, and organized numerous cross-cultural actor-training programs, offering American theatre students access to some of the finest movement-theatre instructors from Russia and Poland.

• JanPlan 2008
  • Irving D. Suss Guest Artist (Fall & JanPlan)
  • Directed The One That Gets Slapped by Leonid Andreyev
• Fall 2007
• Taught Western Theatricalism and the Acting Body in Theory and Practice

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