ART-PARTNER XXI was founded in 1996 by producer Leonid Roberman, who is still its general director. The agency has presented over 50 productions, working with Russia’s top directors, including Roman Kozak, Konstantin Bogomolov, Nina Chusova, Dmitry Krymov, Roman Viktyuk, Vladimir Pankov and many others. These productions have featured well-known Russian film and television actors such as Valentin Gaft, Sergey Jursky, Sergey Makovetsky, Lyubov Polishchuk, Tatiana Vasilyeva, Natalia Gundareva, Sergey Bezrukov, Maria Aronova, Alexandr Feklistov, Yelena Yakovleva, Natalia Tyenkova, Igor Kostolevsky, Mikhail Filippov, Leonid Yarmolnik and countless others. The agency continues to work with most of them today. Art-Partner XXI presents its productions at a variety of Moscow theatres. The productions also visit leading theatres across the Russian Federation and abroad.

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DMITRY KRYMOV graduated from the Moscow Art School Studio in 1976, after which he started work at the Malaya Bronnaya Theatre. There, as a set designer, he participated in productions by his renowned father, director Anatoly Efros, but he quickly established a considerable reputation through his own distinctive efforts as a designer on over a hundred Moscow productions in the Mossoviet, Mayakovsky, Stanislavsky, Gogol and Yermolova theatres. In 2002, at age 48, he embarked on a new career as a director. Since then, his productions have won seven Golden Mask awards and his Dmitry Krymov Laboratory has performed in Brazil, the US, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Estonia among many other countries. Krymov is a holder of a Crystal Turandot and a Stanislavsky award, and awards from international theatre festivals, including the Bank of Scotland Herald Angel Award from the Edinburgh International Festival.