Director, theatre teacher, one of the founders of the project of hand movement Hand Made.
Founder of the theatre project Krugly God [All Year Round] – the project of like-minded people which with time has been shaped into an independent group with its own repertoire, predominantly in the genre of puppet theatre.
Svetlana is one of the directors of the project Museum + Theatre in Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House (St. Petersburg), bringing together history, literature, and theatre art. In the framework of the project they create interactive exhibitions, productions for the entire family based on the works of world children’s classics, as well as productions, dedicated to Anna Akhmatova and key figures of the 20th century literature.
Svetlana is a participant and winner of awards at numerous theatre festivals.
Name: Ozerskaya Svetlana Vilyevna
Date of birth:12.1968
Education: SPbGATI, puppet theatre directing, class of professor I. A. Zaikin, 1999.
Career: Accomplished graduate studies at SPbGATI. Until 2014, I had worked at the department of puppet theatre as senior lecturer. In 2007, in collaboration with Andrei Knyazkov, we organized a theatre of hand movement HAND MADE with a group of SPbGATI graduates. I am the general manager and director of this theatre.
In 2009 I organized a theatre project All Year Round. Since then, I have participated in the projects of Anna Akhmatova Museum Christmas in the Fountain House, the project Museum + Theatre.
In 2015, in the framework of city events, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Joseph Brodsky, a special joint project between Anna Akhmtova Museum at the Fountain House and the theatre of hand movement HAND MADE was created: production Brodsky in Alphabetic Disarray (New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre).
Favorite authors, subjects, stories: I fall in love with the material I am working on at the moment. In my opinion, without falling in love with the material, without the feeling that this is your principal and last production, it just will not work out.
Favorite traditional system of puppets/ texture: I love working with shadow puppets, they are gentle and ephemeral.
Does a performance need text? It consists of text, because this is a story. However, text is not necessarily equal to words.
Is the expression ‘puppet theatre’ still relevant today? When I am working on a production, I do not think about that. The material itself dictates, which theatre means should be used.
What, in your opinion, is the difference between puppet theatre in Russia and the West? There is no difference. There are always good and bad productions.
How can collaboration and cultural exchange be useful? They help us to widen our outlook. It is interesting to meet people, who speak the same theatre language as you. However, it is more interesting to encounter those, whose view of theatre is different.