(MENAFN- AzerNews)
People's Artist Haji Ismayilov has been elected Chairman of the
Board of the Azerbaijan Theater Workers, Azernews
reports. The decision was announced at the 15th conference of the
union.
Haji Ismayilov, an Azerbaijani actor, enrolled in the drama and
film acting program at the Azerbaijan State Theater Institute in
1963. He joined the Sumgayit State Musical Drama Theater as an
actor in the youth troupe on September 2, 1968, and later moved to
the Azerbaijan State Academic National Drama Theater in 1970.
Ismayilov's breakthrough role as Mustafa in the film "Birthday"
at AzerbaijanFilm Studio earned him critical acclaim, leading to
him being honored as the laureate of the State Prize of the
Azerbaijan SSR on April 22, 1980.
Azerbaijan Theater Workers is a public organization uniting
theater workers in Azerbaijan.
The Union of Theater Workers was founded in 1897. The original
name of the organization was the Union of Artists, which united
about 300 artists.
This organization, which continued its activities since 1917 as
the Union of Muslim Artists, since 1920 - as the Union of Turkic
Actors, since 1948 - as the Azerbaijan Theater Society, was renamed
the Union by the decision of the founding conference on February
27, 1987.
The Azerbaijan Theater Workers focuses on the revival of the
theatrical process in the country.
The Theater Workers Union successfully organized theater
festivals like Experimental performances, National Classics,
Republican Festival of Young Directors, Festival of Children's
Performances, Silk Road stage of the International Chekhov
Festival", etc.
The Union of Theater Workers of Azerbaijan is a full member of
the UNESCO International Theater Institute and the International
Confederation of Unions of Theater Workers. The Union has its
branches in Nakhichevan, Ganja, Lankaran and Sumgait
Since March 2013, a laboratory of young directors has been
operating in the Union,
In November 2018, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between
the leadership of the Azerbaijan Theater Workers Union and the
Georgian Theater Society.
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Laman Ismayilova is AzerNews' staff journalist, follow her on
Twitter: @lmntypewriterrr
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