Valery Fokin, born in 1946, People's artist of Russia, State's Prizes winner, honored art worker of Poland, Artistic and General Director of Meyerhold Arts Centre.

Having graduated from Tshukin Theatre School belonging to Vakhtangov Theatre, Valery Fokin had been working as director in Moscow Theatre "Sovremennik" and each his new production attracted sharp interest of spectators and critics. Through that period dealt with literature's production of Nabokov, Vampilov, Rozov, Olbi and other masters of Russian and World dramatic plays.

In 1985 Fokin headed Ermolova Moscow Theatre. First performances of the young chief director made the Theatre one of the most popular in Moscow. As unanimous admission of mass media the very first performance produced by Fokin "Talk " signified the turn to the new theatrical thinking. In his creative works Valery Fokin appeals to the sharpest, "closed" and "painful" themes of the past and present. His performances either modern or classic are characterized by volume and scale of stage's metaphor, sharpness of artistic thinking, theatricality yearning for detailed psychological analysis of the characters.

That's why Fokin's productions arouses interest abroad. Performances he directed are stage in Poland, USA, Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, France, Finland. His performances differ from others not only by skill of production but also by original interpretation of well known images. He changes direction of creative search setting up new esthetics.

The performances "The Hotel Room in the Town NN" by N.Gogol, "Metamorphosis" by F.Kafka, "Tatiana Repina" by A.Chekhov were generally recognized by Russian and World public. Besides bright entertainment, dynamic, paradoxically the performances are characterized by successive search for new theatrical language. The side enables to consider Fokin as one of the leaders of European stage.