Vagif Ibrahimoglu

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Vagif Ibrahimoglu (born October 18, 1949) is an artistic director.

[edit] Career

Ibrahimoglu graduated from the Azerbaijan State Theatre Institute in 1972. He has worked as an actor in the Theatre of Young Spectator in Baku from 1973 to 1976. It was here that Vagif Ibrahimoglu began to try himself as a director.

Ibrahimoglu organized an experimental theatre-studio on the base of Theatre Society of Azerbaijan and was an artistic director of this studio between 1976 and 1979. Afterwards, he was invited to the artistic director position of Theatre-Studio of Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan.

The next level of career of Vagif Ibrahimoglu was State Theatre of Musical Comedy, where he has worked as the Artistic Director from 1982 to 1988.

In 1989 Vagif Ibrahimoglu established the YUG Theatre. Since that year he has been leading it as the artistic director. He has staged more than 100 performances, with about 70 of them in the YUG Theatre.

Vagif Ibrahimoglu has made productions on stages outside of Azerbaijan. In 1985 he directed Arshin mal alan at the Opera & Ballet Theatre of Ankara, Turkey, in 1989 Mashadi Ibad in the same theatre and at the Dram Theatre in Bursa, Turkey. In 2003 Ibrahimoglu directed the Dekameron of Bokkacco at the UGALA Theatre in Vilyandy, Estonia.

[edit] Awards

Ibrahimoglu has received a number of awards, such as the Gizil Dervish (1991) award of Azerbaijan Theatre Union. He was also awarded in FACR Festival (Tehran, Iran), NOVRUZ-93 (Uzbekistan), TUGANLIK Festival in 1996 (Ufa, Russia), AYTIS (Bishkek, Kirgizistan) and countless local festivals (al experimental performance festivals and festivals of mono-spectacles).