General requirements for foreign applicants

Faculty of scenography examines works of applicants from Russia

GITIS has launched an admission campaign

Read about GITIS on THE website

Admission of foreign students to Russian Academy of Theater Arts (Academic Year 2020-2021)

The dates of the admission campaign are being specified

Summer school for international students will take place in 2021

A unique show is based on a new play about GITIS history

The book is available at GITIS and in stores

We communicate with applicants online

Watch it on GITIS YouTube channel

COVID-19 affected the program of the Winter school for British students

The event will be held online

All the shows are canceled till the end of month

All the international festivals at GITIS are postponed

GITIS will host theatre schools of CIS countries

The course Russian Opera is now open for foreign students

They took part in the exhibition dedicated to Sergueï Eisenstein

With this play students celebrated the 95th anniversary of Leonid Zorin

Olga Lyubimova was appointed on Tuesday

Congratulations to Asker Berbekov!

Application to GITIS-fest is now open.

We’ve been hosted by Casa de Rusia.

Application for the 2020 Winter School is open.

The two institutions are examining the possibility to cooperate.

Mikhail Shvydkoy received the Order of the Rising Sun

The film got an award at Geneva International Film Festival.

GITIS teachers and students are visiting New Delhi.

Classes will be held at the Atalante Theatre from 11 to 24 November 2019.

GITIS students performed “Taming of the Shrew” in China’s capital.

This autumn we are hosting students from Beijing.

GITIS student has performed one of the leading roles in the movie.

Another meeting of Greek and Russian students at GITIS.

Students from the Alexander Zelverovich Theatre Academy studied in Moscow as a part of an exchange

A 4-days master class was held at the capital of Belarus

We thank the Black sea resort Sochi for hosting all the participants.

GITIS is happy to host guests from British school for an intense program.

“Monument of the future stars” will serve as a farewell to GITIS’ graduates

A wrap up of the unique10 days program for artists in Georgia.

They were awarded at the 30th Russian largest film festival “Kinotavr” that closed in Sochi.

Director Kantemir Balagov chose our student, young actress Victoria for one of the main roles.

Theater designer and director is working in Venice with his GITIS students.

The Moscow Times visited GITIS and The Boris Shchukin Theater Institute to learn more about the method of the world-renowned director.

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (London) and The Boris Schukin Theatre Institute (Moscow) presented its works on the stage of GITIS Student Theatre.

Students from GITIS and The Central Academy of Drama open the International festival of theatre schools “Stanislavskiy. The beginning”.

GITIS and Liceu Conservatory (Conservatori del Liceu, Barcelona) are planning a joint project in 2020.

The second theatre festival of CIS countries “GITIS — Master class” took place from 15 — 20 March.

The contest is celebrating a big anniversary and presenting a big program.

Students from British East 15 Acting School have come to GITIS for a 4-weeks master-class.

GITIS and The Aleksander Zelwerowicz Academy of Dramatic Art started an educational exchange program.

After six months long restoration students are back to the historic stage.

A new program supporting young directors won a special grant from the Russian president.

GITIS presents its new English booklet that contains all necessary information about institute, its traditions and unique study programs.

The show “Freud”, a project of GITIS and Moscow’s theatre “Contemporary drama school”, is coming to Berlin in March

GITIS professor, dean of the Directing department Vladimir Baicher staged Shakespear’s “King Lear” in Theatrum theatre in Tallinn

GITIS is planning to organize summer school together with Azerbaijan State University of Culture & Arts in Baku (Azerbaijan) in 2019-2020.

We are celebrating a 140 years anniversary in 2018.

Artistic director of Volcano Theatre (Wales) Paul Davies came to GITIS on October 19th to meet with students

GITIS Rector Grigory Zaslavsky hold talks with President of The Central Academy of Drama Xu Xiang in Beijing on the margins of the Third session of World Theatre Education Alliance (WTEA).

Famous Australian director Elijah Moshinsky met with students of the Musical theatre faculty

Russian institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) and Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP) held negotiations on cooperation on the margins of XIV Forum of Theatre Universities (FITU) in Puebla, Mexico.

A meeting of students and professors from the three major theatre universities of the former Soviet Union took place in the Belarusian capital of Minsk.

“Sobibor” by Konstantin Khabensky will represent Russia at the Oscars 2019 Academy Awards.

The Russian Institute of Theatre Arts has given a presentation of the project “Future Theatre Laboratory”.

Rusil Gatin, the Department of Variety Theatre graduate (M. Borisov’s workshop), who made his debut on the stage of Milan’s La Scala Theater last year, told the Business-Online newspaper about his studies at GITIS, work in Italian theaters and his way to become a parodist.

On June 19, in London GITIS principal Grigory Zaslavsky, dean of the Faculty of Acting Lucy Skilbeck and director of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Edward Kemp took part in the negotiations.

Great news — GITIS took the second place in The Best Educational Programs of Innovative Russia project ranking among the culture and arts universities of Russia.

Forbes magazine compiled the first ranking of Russian universities in order to assess the quality of Russian education and to find out which universities graduate young people with entrepreneurial streak, and even those who can later join the Forbes list or become a part of the Russian political elite.

From June 23 to June 30, 2018 in the village of Shekvetili (Georgia) the International Festival of the Acting and Stage Speech Summer School is taking place, involving GITIS students from the Faculty of Acting (V. Andreev’s workshop) and Faculty of Producing (Y. Orlov’s and A. Fokin’s workshop).

Samal Yeslyamova, GITIS Faculty of Directing graduate (workshop of E. Kamenkovich and D. Krymov), winner of the 71st Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award told Izvestia newspaper about her admission to GITIS, her teachers and what GITIS school gave her.

Kultura TV channel broadcasted new episode of the program In Search of Real Russia, presented by Dimitris Georgiadis, GITIS Faculty of Directing graduate. This time, Dimitris drove through the Vologda region.

Today, in Kazan closes the 5th Nauruz International Theater Forum, which gathered theatrical groups from all over the world.

Samal Yeslyamova, laureate of the 71st Cannes Film Festival, who graduated from the Faculty of Directing (workshop of E. Kamenkovich and D. Krymov), visited GITIS today. The actress took a walk in her institute and met GITIS principal Grigory Zaslavsky.

Freud, collective performance of the School of Modern Play theatre and the Russian Institute of Theatrical Art — GITIS took part in the International Theater Festival in Kolkata (India).

On May 23, at the Pushkin Institute of Russian Language the solemn opening of the Cyril and Methodius Slavic Languages and Cultures Festival took place.

On May 22, in a reading room of the GITIS library, within the framework of the Producing Faculty Cycle of Meetings with Outstanding Artists, a creative meeting with Natalia Romanova, Cirque du Soleil director general in Russia, took place.

From May 8 to May 10, 2018 in the capital of Morocco, Rabat, the Times Higher Education (THE) summit was held.

Just before the entrance exams at Russian universities, MIR 24 TV channel released an interesting material about the foreigners studying in Russia, documents they need to collect for admission and how to get a state-funded place.

On the Artificial selection talk show on Radio Culture GITIS graduate and teacher Oleg Glushkov talked to GITIS principal Grigoriy Zaslavskiy about the forthcoming premiere of War and Peace at GITIS, his work on Stilyagi (Hipsters) musical on Broadway, staging in Norway and his other performances.

Russian Information Agency — RIA Novosti — took an interview from GITIS international students: Alya Hanin (Slovenia), Georgios Kutlis (Greece), and Daniela Petkovich (Serbia).

“Loveless” — the film directed by GITIS alumnus Andrey Zvyagintsev — got short-listed for Oscar Best Foreign Language Film nomination.

On November 12, Ruzil Gatin — a GITIS graduate — made his first appearance on La Scala stage in Milan (Ruzil graduated from GITIS Variety Department, prof. Borisov class).

Russian State Institute of Cinematography — VGIK hosts its International Student Film and TV Festival in Moscow!

On October 25 GITIS students from Kamenkovich and Krimov directing class played King Lear at the WTEA 2017 International Theatre Festival in Beijing.

Russian Institute of Theater Arts — GITIS is a well-recognized brand, so no wonder that some dishonest people are trying to exploit it. Here is an example of a fake GITIS certificate signed by a fake professor.

GITIS Rector — Grigory Zaslavsky — during his brief visit to China signed an agreement with Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, that hosted a regular session of World Theatre Education Alliance.

On October 11, 2017 GITIS Rector Grigory Zaslavsky met with a highly representative delegation from Vietnam.

Second-year students of Leonid Heifetz Directing class went to Tallinn as a second phase of student exchange program between GITIS and Estonian Academy of Music and Theater.