Olga Bogomolova

She worked as the head of the literary department in Moscow theatres and as a theatre critic for newspapers including "Izvestia", "Moskovsky Komsomolets", and others. She has written for the magazines "Teatr" and "Sovremennaya dramaturgiya". In 1996, she served as the press secretary for the first National Theatre Award "Zolotaya Maska" ("Golden Mask") and later for the "Art-Club XXI" theatre company. She is a permanent member of expert councils for contemporary playwriting competitions and of the Expert Council of the Russian Theater Union. For many years, she was a senior researcher at the State Institute of Art Studies. Since 2015, she has been a researcher and literary editor at the AZ Museum. Since 2017, she has headed the "Dom Komediy" ("House of Comedies") agency for contemporary playwrights. In 2020 and 2021, she curated the literary-theatre program for the "Pervaya Fabrika Avangarda" ("First Avant-Garde Factory") festival in Ivanovo. She is the compiler and co-author of a book about avant-garde playwright Aleksey Shipenko (Germany) and the author of a book on 1990s theatre life. Since 2023, she has been a permanent member of the Expert Council of the Zverev Art Prize in art history.