Oleg Zhyugzhda

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Oleg Zhyugzhda

Chief Director, Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus

Born on September 13 in Vilnius.
Graduated from the Belarusian State Theatre and Arts Institute (1983) and the N. Cherkasov Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinema (1990).
Joined the Grodno Regional Puppet Theatre in 2000.

Laureate and diploma recipient of international festivals.
He has been awarded the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus’s “For Contribution to the Development of Belarusian Culture” award, the “Kryshtalny Aniolak” prize of the Belarusian Union of Theatre Workers (for his contribution to the development of Belarusian puppet theatre), the F. Skaryna Medal, the A.I. Dubko Prize as “Director of the Year,” and a laureate of the National Theatre Award of the Republic of Belarus.
His directorial work has been twice nominated for the Russian “Golden Mask” theatre award.
By decision of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee, he was named “Person of the Year of the Grodno Region 2014.”
In 2019, Oleg Olegovich was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus.