Mark Weil

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Mark Weil

Born	Марк Яковлевич Вайль January 25, 1952 Tashkent, Soviet Union
Died	September 7, 2007 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Cause of death	Murdered
Occupation	Theatre director
Known for	Founder of Ilkhom Theatre

Mark Yakovlevich Weil (Russian: Марк Яковлевич Вайль) (January 25, 1952 – September 7, 2007) was a Soviet and Uzbekistan-born theatre director, and founder and art director of the Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent. His parents, Ukrainian Jews, had arrived in Uzbekistan in the late 1930s. His father was a soldier, and his mother had studied at the Theatre Institute, Kiev.

His last production was the Greek tragedy The Oresteia; he was murdered the day before it was scheduled to open, and the actors went ahead because the show must go on. ^[1]. He was stabbed to death in the entrance lobby to his block of flats in Tashkent. He was reportedly attacked by two unknown males, who hit him on the head with a bottle and stabbed him in the abdomen. The murderers escaped after the attack.

His murder was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 Crossing Continents documentary in April 2008. ^[1]