Nikolay Kolyada, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nikolay Kolyada

Russian playwright, theatre director, actor

Date of Birth: 04-Dec-1957

Place of Birth: Presnogor’kovka, Kostanay Region, Kazakhstan

Profession: actor, writer, playwright, contributing editor, drama teacher, theater director

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Nikolay Vladimirovich Kolyada (Russian: ??????? ???????????? ??????; also transliterated as Nikolai Koliada) is a Russian actor, director, writer, playwright, and playwriting teacher.
Theatre critic John Freedman names Kolyada as one of several dramatists and directors who might be designated as "fathers" or "mothers" of Russia's contemporary theatre movement.
(Other contenders mentioned are Aleksei Kazantsev, Elena Gremina, Nadezhda Ptushkina, and Ol’ga Mukhina).
The New York Times said that Kolyada's work has made a Yekaterinburg a "center of modern drama." Kolyada is one of the first Russian playwrights to address homosexuality in his work, especially in Slingshot.