Director, graduate of the M.G.I.K. of Moscow, faculty of theatre direction – trained by Enver Beïboutov and Edgar Egadze.

For 25 years, Emile Salimov worked as director, stage designer, costume designer and drama teacher, teaching acting training, the dramaturgy theory and history of theatre.

Co-founder in 1981, in Moscow, with Edgar Egadze, of the Théâtre-Studio Na Oussachevke, of which he becomes artistic manager in 1982, Emile Salimov founds and then manages the Skazka Theatre, where, from 1983 to 1985, he puts on plays for children with his troupe (Stevenson’s Treasure Island, A. Lingrend’s Pippi Longstocking, Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince de, Gabbé’s La Ville des Maîtres, etc.).
He founded a drama school in this theatre.
In 1985, he worked at the Satire National Theatre of Moscow, with Valentin Plioutchek, director, trained by Meyerhold, State Award-winner.

In 1986, invited by the Department of Culture of Georgy, Emile Salimov creates Haut-de-Forme of E. de Filippo, at the Meskhisvili National Theatre of Koutaïssi and gets fot that show the City’s Special Award, the award of the Department of Culture and the TV award.

In 1987 in Moscow, he founds the Theatre Studio Staraïa Chliapa, independent theatre, composed of a troupe of 20 professional actors.
Emile Salimov put on many plays like :

- in Moscow :
Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Ionesco’s The bold Soprano (first translation and first time directed in ex USSR), Marat-Sade by Peter Weiss (first time in former USSR, music : Alexandre Jourbine), La Dame de Pique d'après Pouchkine ;

- in Paris :
L'Extravagant Monsieur Jourdain by Boulgakov (Théâtre de la Main d'Or), Une Demande en Mariage et Un Jubilé de A. Tchékhov (Centre Pouchkine-Espace Russie), Cœur de Chien de Boulgakov (Centre Pouchkine-Espace Russie), sa pièce Le Thaumaturge était de haute Taille... (Théâtre de la Main d'Or), Les Joueurs de Nikolaï Gogol, in a new translation in 1999 (Théâtre Le Lucernaire), Le Procès from Franz Kafka’s novel in 2000 – play that got a grant from l'Aide à la Production du Ministère de la Culture et de la Francophonie (Théâtre Le Lucernaire) and Amerika from Franz Kafka’s novel in 2001-2002 (Théâtre Le Lucernaire).

Emile Salimov wrote more than ten versions for stage of Russian or foreign literature, like Crime et Châtiment, La Douce, Les Carnets du Sous-Sol and Le Rêve de l'Oncle by Dostoïevski, Gogol’s Le Journal d'un Fou, L'Invitation au Supplice by Nabokov, Cœur de Chien by Boulgakov, Le Procès, Amerika by Kafka, // Decameron by Boccace...

He wrote six plays : Le Thaumaturge était de haute Taille... from Russian author Daniil Harms (Aide à la Création du Ministère de la Culture et de la Francophonie), La Dernière Anecdote anglaise, Les Ailes de Frida, II faut toujours viser à la Tête (Aide à la Création du Ministère de la Culture et de la Francophonie), Je mourrai comme Socrate et Le caprice.
 

email: emile.salimov@acting-international.com

 

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