
				  <img src="img/mIgnatieva.jpg" align="left" style="padding-right:20px" width="200px" alt="Maria Ignatieva">
				  <strong>Maria Ignatieva, PhD</strong><br />
				  Associate Professor of Theatre
                  <p><span class="title">Areas of Expertise</span></p>
                  <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; Russian Theatre History & Contemporary Russian Theatre<br />
                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; Acting/Directing<br />
                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; Children's Theatre</p>
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<p>Maria Ignatieva, Associate Professor, Lima Campus, a Graduate Faculty 
Representative of the OSU Graduate Studies, defended her dissertation at the 
Moscow State Institute of Theatre Art in 1988. Before coming to America, she 
worked as an Assistant Professor at the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio where 
she taught courses in Russian and Soviet Theatre. From 1984-1987 she was a 
Senior Curator of Youth, Children and Puppet Theatres at the U.S.S.R. Ministry 
of Culture. Ignatieva's portfolio includes more than 40 articles on contemporary 
Russian theatre and theatre history, as well as presentations on various aspects 
of Russian Theatre at the conferences and congresses of the International 
Federation of Theatre Researchers in UK, Australia, Netherlands, Poland, 
Germany, Finland, as well as at the Performance Studies , American Society for 
theatre Research, Comparative Drama, and American Association for the 
Advancement of Slavic Studies conferences. In 2004, Ignatieva received a 
COCA-COLA GRANT &quot;CRITICAL DIFFERENCE FOR WOMEN.&quot; Her book Stanislavsky and 
Female Actors: Women in Stanislavsky's Life and Art was published in 
2008(University Press of America). In 2010, Ignatieva was a co-organizer of the 
International Chekhov Conference, held at the Ohio State University (Columbus).<br>
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At Ohio State, Lima she directed over 20 plays plays, among them Uncle Vanya and 
Seagull by Anton Chekhov, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and Hedda 
Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen. Initiator of the program Theatre for Young Audiences, 
Ignatieva wrote and directed eight plays for children (between 1995 and 2010), 
and guided children's theatre workshops.</p>
                  <!--- <p>In 2004, Ignatieva received a COCA-COLA GRANT "CRITICAL DIFFERENCE FOR WOMEN," which supported her research at the Moscow Art Theatre Museum (winter 2005) towards the completion of her book "Stanislavsky and Actresses." Ignatieva's recent publications include the essays:<br />
                  "The Troublemaker of the Whole Venture: Stanislavsky and Maria Andreyeva," in "Theatre 2004," (USA-Netherlands), "Between Love and Theatre: Young Stanislavsky," (in Theatre History Studies 2005) and "Michael Chekhov: The Sacred Body Versus The Profane Body" in the Anthology "Theatre and The Human Body", Krakow, Poland 2005.<br />
                  Recent productions include "The Blue Bird" by Maurice Maeterlinck (Autumn 2004) and "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams (Spring 2005).</p> --->
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                    <span class="title">Education</span>
                    <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. Moscow State Institute of Theatre Art 1979-1988</p>
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