Yuri Alshits became GITIS ambassador to Germany.
Yuri Alshits was a student of famous Mikhail Butkevich and Anatoly Vasilyev. He has worked at universities and major theatre schools in Scandinavia, Western and Eastern Europe, South-East Asia, North America and Latin America.
The theatre education centre he founded in Berlin, ACT-ZENT, subsequently joined the European Network of Theatre Laboratories (EATL), and now operates under the auspices of UNESCO as the International Theatre Institute (ITI/UNESCO).
