Anton Mouzykantskii is an award-winning international director, writer, educator and creative producer - having trained in the UK and US, until recent events his work has been based in Russia. His hit production of Peter Sham’s and Brad Carroll’s musical LEND ME A TENOR received rave reviews and was nominated for six Golden Mask Awards, including Best Musical. The production is now entering its second sold-out year, having run both in Yekaterinburg and in Moscow. 

In 2019 Anton conceived a series of concept-concerts at the New Moscow Philharmonic (Zaryadye Hall) - featuring Russian-language premieres of pieces by Sondheim, Brown, Yazbek, Lippa, Gasparini and Pasek and Paul. The series was critically recognized as a trailblazing project for AngloRussian culture and for the musical theatre industry. Other directing credits include russian-language premieres of CARRIE, NEXT TO NORMAL and a lab of Craig Adams’ THERÈSE RAQUIN. 

Writer/Director credits include THE LAST BELL: A site-specific original musical set in a sports hall exploring violence in schools (with co-writer Daria Aksenova). He is also the creator and artistic director of SONGBOOK - аn online video-library of translated contemporary musical theatre songs. 

Selected Teaching credits include: Acting Through Song Coach at Guildford School of Acting (UK)and Guest Lecturer in Musical Theater Dramaturgy and Adaptation at the Higher School of Economics.

Award-winning musical director and conductor.

The winner of the Russian National Theater Award «Golden Mask» for «Best Conductor in musical» (for THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA staged by Stage Entertainment Russia, 2016). 

Best known as chief conductor and musical director for Stage Entertainment Russia productions: these include «Beauty and the Beast» (music by Alan Menken), «Zorro» (music by Gipsy Kings and John Cameron), «The Sound of Music» (music by Richard Rodgers), «The Little Mermaid» (music by Alan Menken), «Chicago» (music by John Kander); assistant music director of «Cats» (music by Andrew Lloyd Webber) and «Mamma Mia!» (based on songs by ABBA). 

Conductor of the international tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. 

She has written musical arrangements for W. Shakespeare's The Tempest (a co-production of the Chekhov International Theatre Festival, Russia), Les Gémeaux, France and Cheek by Jowl, UK.

A theater and film set artist. 

She has worked on over thirty productions as a set and costume designer. Her stage works include "Galka Motalko" at Kazantsev and Roshchin's Center for Drama and Directing, "Moscow-Cheryomushki" at the Mariinsky Theater, "Funny Zhe Me" at the Pushkin Theater, "Proximity" at Meyerhold Center, "Sweeney Todd" and "The Last 5 Years" at Taganka Theater, "Peter Pan" at the Moscow Regional State Theater for Young Spectators, "Borrow the Tenor" at the Sverdlovsk Music Comedy Theater, "First Date" and "Valentine's Day" at the MDM Theater, etc. 

Since 2002 she has been a costume designer in films and advertising. The list of her movies includes: "Don't even think," "Don't even think 2," "Dreaming is not harmful," "Viola Tarakanova," "Bunker," "Inhale-Exhale," "Own team," "Love is not what it seems," "Window," "Second wind," "Survive after 2", "Wait for me." Commercials: Coca-Cola, Samsung, Tat-oil, Eldorado, Juice I, Ginger Up, Chevrolet, Prelox interactive site Bruno Banani (Lacoste), RuTube, Philip Morris, Lexus; New Year screensavers of Channel One, NTV, STS Love channel. 

From 2008 to 2011, she was a set designer of "RUSSIAN FASHION WEEKS."  

Costume designer. 

Work experience: "Jazz for the three" at the Moscow International House of Music; "The Last 5 Years" at Taganka Theatre; "First Date" at MDM Theatre; "Valentine's Day" at MDM Theatre, assistant costume designer.

Experience in cinema: "Own team" (TV channel "Russia"); "Love is not what it seems" (STS); "Second Wind" (Russia's First Channel); "Survive After 2" (STS); "Wait for me" (Russia's First Channel); "Vargazeya" (Russia's First Channel); the feature-length film "My Happiness" (directed by A. Frandetti). Background in advertising: commercials for Chevrolet, Bruno Banani (Lacoste); video introduction for the TV show "Free Look" (CTC Love). She is also a costume designer for dozens of events: Unilever, Kaspersky, Mikhailov and Partners, etc.

In 2014: a dancer in the first 3D musical «Pola Negri». 
In 2015-2018: swing and dance captain in Stage Entertainment Russia productions («Singing in the rain», «Cinderella», «The Ghost», «Chess», «Cabaret»). 
Since 2019: dance captain in the musical «Stilyagi» (Theater of Nations, Moscow). 
In 2020: assistant choreographer in the original Russian TV shows «Big Musical» and «Big Jazz». 

Education: Moscow State University of Culture and Arts with a degree in Choreography (2014).

He has designed lighting for more than 200 theatrical productions in Russia and abroad.

His list of achievements includes working with renowned directors (Kirill Serebrennikov, Konstantin Bogomolov, Dmitry Krymov), the Golden Mask for the Gogol Centre’s production of Petrovs in the Flu and the Musical Heart of Theatre award for his production of Cabaret at the Globe Theatre in Novosibirsk.

In 2006 he graduated from the production department of the Moscow Art Theatre School. He has worked on lighting design for over 100 television and concert programmes. He has staged productions at leading theatres in Russia and Europe, including Frau Schindler (Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre), The Dragon, Three Sisters, Seryozha (Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre). Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre), The Stilyagi, The Circus and The Bluebird (Theatre of Nations), Kostik (Pushkin Theatre), Sweeney Todd and Run Alice, Run, Onegin (Taganka Theatre), The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Bolshoi Theatre), Medea (Tbilisi State Opera).

In 2012, in collaboration with the Chekhov Festival, Ivan worked on the production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon, UK) as part of the World Shakespeare Festival. The production was performed in Edinburgh and then in Australia and New Zealand.

Since 2018, lighting designer for the “Mendeleev Prize Ceremony” at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

He worked as a sound engineer with Stage Entertainment Russia, «Broadway Moscow», «Stage Orchestra», the Moscow Musical Theater, the Theater of Nations, the Pushkin Theater and other theatre companies. 

● 2012-2014 — sound designer for the musicals EMBEZZLERS and YOU DON'T CHOOSE THE TIMES (Moscow) 
● 2013 — sound designer for the musicals LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (Moscow) and LOVE STORY (Vladikavkaz) 
● 2014 — sound designer for the musical O'HENRY CHRISTMAS (Moscow) 
● 2014-2016 — sound designer for the musical THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and sound designer of the show cases «Broadway Dreams» (Moscow) 
● 2015 — producing sound designer for the musical SINGING IN THE RAIN (Moscow) 
● 2016 — producing sound designer for the musical CINDERELLA (Moscow) 
● 2016-2017 — sound designer for the musical VAMPIRE BALL (Moscow) 
● 2017-2018 — sound designer for the musical THE GHOST (Moscow) 
● 2018 — producing sound designer for the musical BAT OUT OF HELL (Oberhausen, Germany) and sound designer for the musical THE MAGIC LAMP (Moscow), sound designer of the concert version of the musical THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA in the Kremlin Palace.
● 2019 — sound designer for the musicals STILYAGI, JAZZ FOR THREE, PREDATORS, PINOCCHIO, sound designer for the play THE COMEDY ABOUT A BANK ROBBERY and the musical FIRST DATE (Moscow) 
● 2019-2020 — sound designer for concerts PLAYING A MUSICAL (Moscow) 
● 2020 — sound designer for the musical CHESS (Moscow) 

He provides seminars and trainings for theatre sound designers and advises theaters on sound issues.

Librettist, translator and literary editor; co-author of the libretto of the musical LAST CALL, author of adapted translations of arias from new century musicals, including works by Sondheim, Brown, Pasek and Paul, Gasparini and others. She has collaborated with the Kultura television channel, and her translations of arias have been heard on the stage of the Zaryadye Concert Hall and in the TV programme Romance of Romance. 

Literary editor and co-author of texts for the Russian premiere of the musical LEND A TENOR, author of the play MELODY OF TWO SEAS for the Sverdlovsk Musical. The lliterary editor of the translated SONGBOOK library of musical arias. 

She studied at the Yekaterinburg State Theatre Institute (Theatre Directing Study Programme, by Anatoly Praudin). She received classical liberal arts education at Ural Federal University.

Assistant director and resident director for about 20 musicals. She supervised the international projects DANCE-SUMMIT-2016; MAN ON A LEDGE and EMERALD CITY.