Dmitri Lipskerov

Dmitri Mikhailovich Lipskerov (born February 19, 1964 in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian writer and dramatist. Biography Dmitri Lipskerov was born on February 19th 1964 in Moscow, Soviet Union into the family of a well-known dramatist and cartoon animator («Ограбление по…», «Волк и телёнок») Mikhail Lipskerov, and Inna Lipskerova, a music editor in the State House of Radio and Audio Recording. In 1981-1985 he studied in the prestigious Boris Shchukin Theater Institute. A year before graduating, in 1984 he played a part in the film Osoboe Podrazdelenie (Special Unit) made by Georgi Shchukin. Dmitri began his writing career as a dramatist. In 1989 under the supervision Oleg Tabakov the author staged his first play, Reka Na Asfalte (River on Asphalt), which later put on in more than 1,500 theatres and theatre studios. The play Schkola Dlya Immigrantov (School for Immigrants), first written in 1988 under the name of Schkola S Teatral’nym Uklonom (Theatre School), was staged in Lenkom in 1990, starring famous actors, such as Oleg Yankovsky, Aleksandr Zbruyev, Aleksandr Abdulov and Nikolai Karachentsov. Dmitri Lipskerov is a winner of the Moscow Komsomol Prize and also the youngest member of the Soviet Writers Union, which he joined in 1989. In 1991 he had left the Soviet Union to go to the US, where he lived until 1993.