Anton Milenin

Anton Michailovič Milenin (Russian: Антон Миленин; Moscow, April 7, 1969) is a Russian theatre actor, director and teacher who has worked in Italy and Russia for more than fifteen years.

Anton Milenin

Biography

Born and raised in Moscow, Milenin started his theatrical studies at the Moscow Art Theatre (MXAT) with Alexander Kalyagin and Alla Pokrovskaja.

After three years, he abruptly changed his artistic path and joined the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) where he graduated twice: in 1991, as an actor, under the instruction of Boris Morozov and Iosif Rajchel'hauz; and in 1997, as a director, under the instruction of Vassilij Ivanic Skorik.

Career

Milenin's acting debut was in 1991 at MXAT, playing with Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Stanislav Lyubshin and Victor Mirošničenko.

In 1995 he receive first prize at the Lithuanian Festival in Daugavpils for his direction of Diderot's Jacques the Fatalist. In 1996 he staged at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS), during Sergej Isaiev's direction,[1] The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov.

In 1997 he was invited to Europe, and worked on Dostoevsky's The Gambler at the AKT-ZENT Creative Center[2] headed by Jurij Alschitz in Berlin.

The next year he participated at the École des Maîtres with Matthias Langhoff, directing Heart Piece by Heiner Müller.[3] In 2001, as a visiting professor, he directed the graduating students of the School of Dramatic Arts Paolo Grassi in Milan, staging Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.[4]

With Giorgio Barberio Corsetti's Company, he collaborated in Fattore K and Progetto Cechov,[5] directing Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and The Seagull at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. The production, in which the main character of Kostja Treplev was played by a young Filippo Timi at the beginning of his career, proved to be a turning-point experience for all actors involved.[6]

He is then among the artists invited at the Festival Santarcangelo dei Teatri[7] and at the VolterraTeatro Festival,[8] where he directs In the Solitude of Cotton Fields by Bernard-Marie Koltès, The Gamblers by Nikolai Gogol and conducts the masterclass All’uscita del teatro dopo la rappresentazione di una nuova commedia, also inspired by Gogol's work. His study of Koltès' plays continues in 2004 with Roberto Zucco staged in Rome at the Teatro Rialto Santambrogio and at Metateatro - Casa delle Culture and in Rennes at the Dromesko.

Nel 2005 he wins the first prize at the Russian Festival of Young Dramaturgy in Tarusa directing K. Tcakhova's The Blu snake. In 2007, he is invited at the XIV International Actor Festival in Neaples where he mastered the workshop Recitare con il personaggio (Acting with the character) on Plato's Republic [9]

Sapienza University of Rome and the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico (Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts)[10] invited Milenin and Nikolaj Skorik between 2006 and 2007 in the series of masterclasses and conferences about Konstantin Stanislavski and Vsevolod Meyerhold Le due ali del Gabbiano (the two wings of the Seagull)[11] Returning to Russia in 2008, he worked at the School of Dramatic Art, founded and directed by Anatoly Vasiliev,[12] leading an acting masterclass on Tarkovsky's films Stalker and Nostalghia.

In the same year, he is the founder of Kostja Treplev Theatre, currently based in Naples. The Company has staged under his artistic direction Thus Spoke Oscar Wilde and Napolitica, from Oscar Wilde's The Young King, The Happy Prince and other tales; Zed - Philosophy with the Whip, from Nietzsche's, Plato's, Berdyaev's, Theophanes's and others' theories on the nature of love; a new production of Koltès' s Roberto Zucco.[13]

References
  1. Sergej Isaiev (Jul. 23, 1951 - Jul. 29, 2000 Russian philosopher, cultural studies, theater theorist, director, teacher and theater education reformer, Ph.D., Professor, Honored Artist of Russia. He graduated from the Philosophy Faculty of Moscow State University, and trained at the Sorbonne. From 1988 to 2000 was the rector of the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS). Since 1980 he taught at universities in Russia, Italy, UK, France and Spain. The range of interests of Sergei Isaev entered the history of philosophy and aesthetics, French literature, avant-garde theater. In 1991, he got a doctorate in Søren Kierkegaard. In the same year, together with his wife Natalia published book of translations of several treatises Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling. He is author of more than 40 papers on the history and theory of art, theatrical aesthetics and semiotics of theater in Russia, published in magazines as Moscow observer, Theatres, Modern Drama, in Italy, France and Japan. His main publication is 1999 Theology of death. Essays on Protestant Modernism.
  2. The AKT-ZENT Creative Center, joining in 1996 with KOINE (France), PROTEI (Italy) and SCUT (Scandinavia) formed the European Association for Theatre Culture, and is now the Research Centre of the Theatre Education & Training Committee of the International Theatre Institute–UNESCO
  3. Franco Quadri e Andrea Nanni, L'Ecole des Maîtres. Libri di Regia 1995-1999. Vol. 3: 1998-99 (Langhoff, Castri, Lassalle, Nekrosius), Ubulibri, 2001
  4. Sara Chiapporri, Giulietta e Romeo a scuola di russo, La Repubblica, 30 June 2001
  5. Sandro Gobbi, L'azione efficace: quanti e neuroni in scena, Armando Editore, 2011, p. 94
  6. Progetto Cechov, Tempi Moderni n. 1, aprile-giugno 2000; Progetto Cechov, Tempi Moderni n. 2, giugno-settembre 2001
  7. Festival Santarcangelo dei Teatri 2002
  8. Festival Volterra Teatro, XIV edition, 2000
  9. Pièce, incontri e laboratori parte il festival dell' attore, La Repubblica, 13 September 2007. Natalia di Bartolo, Al via a Napoli il XIV Festival Internazionale dell'Attore Archived 29 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Teatro.it, 30 August 2007.
  10. Don Rubin (ed.). The world encyclopedia of contemporary theatre, 1. p. 541.
  11. Silvia Carandini, Rompere i muri per cercare il calore, conversazione con Anton Milenin in Contromano: storia della Minimum fax dal 1993 al 2008 - Le sfere, Volume 127 edited by Gianfranco Tortorelli, Pendragon ed., 2010, p. 109.
  12. Robert Leach, Victor Borovsky, A History of Russian Theatre, Cambridge University Press, 1999; see also Anatoly Vasiliev’s School of Dramatic Art is Under the Threat of Extinction, October 2006
  13. Treplev, un russo sulla scena napoletana; Il Multiforme respiro dell'amore, di Fabio Rocco Oliva, Arteatro, 27 giugno 2011. See also Appunti sul Metodo dell'Analisi Strutturale nel teatro di Kostja Treplev
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