On November 29, 2011, 2010/2011 season award ceremony for the International Theater K.S. Stanislavsky Award took place in Moscow. This year, Artistic Director of the Alexandrinsky Theater Valery Fokin became laureate of this award.  His performance “Konstantin Raikin.  An Evening with Dostoyevsky” after Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Letters from Underground” produced at the Moscow Satiricon Theater was named among other drama performances of the last season. 

Several other performances were also awarded:  I. Bashevis-Zinger’s “Enemies.  A Story of Love” (Director Eugeny Arye, Sovremennik Theater); “The Buddenbrooks” after T. Mann’s novel (Director Mindaugas Karbauskis, RAMT); “The Three Sisters” by A. Chekhov (Director Lev Dodin, MDT Europe Theater). 

Mikhail Filippov became Award Laureate in the nomination “Actor’s Mastership” with citation “For the Roles of the Last Years,” and Agrippina Steklova was awarded for the role of Nina Zarechnaya in “The Seagull” at the Satiricon Theater.   Composer Faustas Latenas was awarded in the nomination “For Music in Dramatic Performance.”  Ariana Mnushkina received a special prize “For the Input to the World Theater Development.” Alexander Kuzin and Victor Ryzhakov were awarded for their contribution to theater pedagogy.  Andrey Vorobiev was honored in the nomination “For Theater Management” (for preparation and commissioning of the new stage of the Pyotr Fomenko Master Shop).  Tatyana Shah-Azizova was awarded for her studies of A. Chekhov’s literary heritage and productions of his plays, and Sergey Nikulin received an award as founder of the  Theater Publishing House.

The International Theater K.S. Stanislavsky Award was established in 1994 along with the Foundation of the same name.  Since then, it is annually awarded for outstanding contributions for the development of theater art.  Each laureate receives a badge of honor with the image of the MKhAT’ Seagull and Stanislavsky’s facsimile, and also a monetary award.   More than 100 figures of the national and foreign theaters have received this award since it was founded.