Efim Brill Russian Soviet theater director Date of Birth: 25.09.1896 Country: Ukraine

1. Biography of Efim Brill
2. Early Career
3. Work in Moscow
4. Director in Rostov-on-Don and Sverdlovsk
5. Later Career
6. Legacy

Biography of Efim Brill

Efim Aleksandrovich Brill was a Russian and Soviet theater director, born on September 13, 1896, in Kishinev, Bessarabian Governorate. His father, Zisel Khaimovich Brill, was a civil servant, and his mother, Beyla Abramovna Kalik, was a housewife.

Early Career

Brill began his directorial career by staging plays in a military hospital in 1915. In 1921, he graduated from the theatrical studio of Andrey Arkadyev and Lorenzo in Odessa. From 1923, he started teaching theater and worked in Kishinev and Odessa. He played an active role in the creation of the Nizhny Novgorod Youth Theater (1928) and worked as a director at the Nizhny Novgorod Drama Theater from 1926 to 1930.

Work in Moscow

From 1930 to 1936, Brill worked as a director in Moscow, including at the former Korsh Theater, the Youth Theater (TYUZ), and the Central Children's Theater of Art (CTKA). From 1936 to 1940, he served as the chief director of the Gorky State Drama Theater.

Director in Rostov-on-Don and Sverdlovsk

In 1940, Brill became the chief director of the Rostov-on-Don Drama Theater, a position he held until 1943. From 1943 to 1952, he served as the artistic director and chief director of the Sverdlovsk Academic Drama Theater. Throughout his career, Brill actively staged classical plays and works by Ural authors. Some of his notable productions include Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya," Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac," Nikolai Gogol's "The Inspector General," Lope de Vega's "The Dog in the Manger," Anatoly Salynsky's "The First Road," and Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak's "Privalovsky's Millions."

Later Career

From 1952 to 1954, Brill served as the chief director of the Bashkir Theater of Opera and Ballet in Ufa. He then became the chief director of the Chelyabinsk Drama Theater from 1954 to 1955. From 1955 until his death, he worked as a director at the Kyiv Academic Ukrainian Theater named after I. Franko.

Brill was also a professor at the Ural Conservatory. He served as the chairman of the Gorky, Rostov-on-Don, and Sverdlovsk divisions of the All-Union Theatrical Society from 1936 to 1952.

Legacy

Efim Aleksandrovich Brill passed away on July 27, 1959, in Kyiv. He was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1940 and received the Stalin Prize of the second degree in 1946 for his production of "Othello" at the Lunacharsky Sverdlovsk State Theater of Opera and Ballet.