PrimaMedia, April 30
Far East's Rising Stars Compete for Spot at Russia's Top Theatre School
MTS, in partnership with the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS), has announced the results of an educational initiative for prospective students from Russia's Far East. The preliminary in-person selection for the country's leading theatre university took place in Vladivostok at the Primorsky Regional Philharmonic as part of the Generation M project. Top candidates from Primorsky Krai, Khabarovsk Krai, Amur Oblast, and Transbaikalia were chosen, earning credit for passing the first round of auditions and securing a spot in the second round in Moscow, according to MTS's press service.
Over 100 participants took part in the preliminary auditions and a creative meeting with GITIS instructors—Tatiana Morozova, a senior lecturer in acting, and Alexander Nedomolkin, a lecturer in stage speech. Aspiring students from Vladivostok, Artyom, Nakhodka, Ussuriysk, Kavalerovo, Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Blagoveshchensk, and Chita seized the opportunity to showcase their talents to the theatre school's faculty.
Applicants prepared a mandatory performance program, including a poem, a fable, and a prose excerpt. Those auditioning for the sound drama track also performed songs in Russian, English, and even French, while some demonstrated their skills on the piano, guitar, and drums. Fourteen candidates advanced to the next round, with one—Mark Varchenko—qualifying for both acting and sound drama.
On the acting faculty, 11 applicants received high marks from the judges: Mark Varchenko (Vladivostok), Timur Kulakov (Vladivostok), Daniil Nagaitsev (Artyom), Valeria Los (Ussuriysk), Alice Teleutova (Artyom), Stefania Shevtsova (Vladivostok), Marina Zarechneva (Vladivostok), Pavel Elkin (Artyom), as well as candidates from other Far Eastern regions—Daniil Leus (Khabarovsk), Sofia Dushak (Blagoveshchensk), and Yana Rogova (Chita). Four of them—Mark Varchenko, Timur Kulakov, Daniil Nagaitsev, and Yana Rogova—were invited to the second round of in-person auditions in Moscow. The remaining seven were offered the chance to audition in person at Tatiana Morozova's workshop for the correspondence division of GITIS's acting faculty in Blagoveshchensk.
At the Faculty of New Stage Arts, four emerging artists advanced to the next stage: Mark Varchenko (Vladivostok), Anton Ryabov (Vladivostok), Anna Kurakina (Vladivostok), and Maxim Pak (Khabarovsk).
This year, Vladivostok—alongside Surgut and Astrakhan—became one of the Russian cities where the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) held in-person auditions. The Primorsky Territory and other regions of the Far East are home to many creatively gifted teenagers, and the recently concluded auditions confirmed this. As a technological leader, our mission is to bridge distances between people. Thanks to the Generation M educational initiative, even from nearly 10,000 kilometers away from the capital, talented young people from the Far East had the opportunity to meet with instructors in person, get answers to all their questions, and earn a chance to be recommended for the second round of GITIS admissions," said Yevgenia Sysoyeva, Director of MTS in Primorsky Krai.
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