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Born in Moscow, Russia, Yury graduated from the Russian Academy of Theater Art (GITIS) in 2000. Since 2009, he has lived and worked in the United States. Currently, Yury serves as a co-artistic director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, where his directing credits include Twelfth Night, Minor Character, and Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play. Woolly Mammoth Theater has been Yury’s first artistic home in America. Here, Yury directed My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion, KISS, Marie Antoinette, and You for Me for You, and is a proud company member since 2014. In 2009-2011, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Residence at Towson University, MD where he still teaches. Yury is an Associate Director of the Center for International Theater Development. With CITD, Yury participated in and co-produced multiple US-East European cultural initiatives. He also translated plays of Martin McDonagh, Sarah Ruhl, and Edward Albee into Russian, and several contemporary Russian plays into English.