Nikolai Afanasev

Director, Assistant
Acting Coach
Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

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Agent

  • The Meus / Lisa Meuser
    Agent
  • 613-853-1559
    Contact
  • Agent's Website
    Website

Other

  • My Contact Number:
    6478642428

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Credits

Year Job Title
Project Type		 Project Name
Director / Company		 Location
2023 Actor/Character: Volodya
Theatre 		Ballad of the Motherland
Annie Valentina/ Neptune Theatre
2022 Actor
Film 		Resistance
Humber College/Denzel Noylander 		Humber College North Campus
2021 Actor
Film 		Remi
Ofis Productions/Serhat Dogantekin
2019 Actor
Film 		Protest
Egor Trushin/ Toronto Film School 		Toronto, ON
2018 Ushering
Theatre 		Midsummer Night’s Dream
Richard Sheridan Willis / The Chekhov Collective 		THE CITADEL
2018 Various parts/ Director
Theatre 		The Incidents
Nikolai Afanasev / University of Toronto Mississauga Drama Club 		University of Toronto, CCT 1080
2017 Director
Theatre 		The Swan Song
Nikolai Afanasev / University of Toronto Mississauga English and Drama Club 		Mist Theatre
2017 Hirin
Theatre 		The Jubilee
Alina Starkov / The ‘N’ Studio theatre 		The ‘N’ Studio
2016 Wardrobe Crew
Theatre 		Picnic
Patrick Young / Theatre Erindale 		Erindale Studio Theatre
2015 Properties & Paint Crew
Theatre 		Orestes
Autumn Smith / Theatre Erindale 		Erindale Studio Theatre
2014 Set Crew
Theatre 		The Capulets and The Montagues
Mimi Mekler / Theatre Erindale 		Erindale Studio Theatre
2014 Set Crew
Theatre 		The Massey Murder
Meredith Scott / Theatre Erindale 		Theatre Erindale
2014 Wardrobe Crew
Theatre 		The Seagull
Melee Hutton / Theatre Erindale 		Theatre Erindale
2012 Bayan
Theatre 		The Bedbug
Konstantin Frank / Youth Theatre ‘TM’ 		Smolensk, Chamber Theatre, Old Venue

Education

Year Qualification Where
2022 Improvisation Level: 1 and 2 Second City - Leah Cameron (2022)
2019 Voice Training (American Accent) Joy Juckes Private Coaching (2019)
2018 Intro to Lecoq Bad Hat Theatre – Adam Paolozza (2018).
2018 Presence Workshop - le jeu and clown John Beale Coaching (2018)
2018 Michael Chekhov: Psychological Gestures Michael Checkov Canada School - Peggy Coffey, Rena Polley, Lionel Walsh (2018)
2018 On-Camera Scene Study Class – The Dirt Underneath Actor's Space – John Gordon (2018)
2018 Acting, Production Dramaturgy, Movement, The Comedic Image Honours Bachelor of Arts Major in Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies; Minors in Art History and Cinema Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
2016 Two Year Acting Training Sheridan College (2014-2016) – Patrick Young, David Matheson.

Equipment

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About me

A young actor, director and screenwriter. I have started acting since being a part of the local youth theatre when I attended a high school in my home country, Russia. After moving to Canada, during and after graduating from the University of Toronto theatre program, I started to direct and continued developing my acting skills at school, in local community theatres and in workshops. Recently, I have directed Anton Chekhov's farce comedy Swan Song and Daniil Kharms' absurd-circus show called The Incidents. Recently, I have become particularly interested in exploring movement, clown and pantomime theatre genres. Also, I currently work on a screenplay for a short film and I am presently adapting a classical Russian play, Marriage, by Nikolai Gogol into English for a future production.
Additional skills:
writing, translating, meditation, yoga, 8 years guitar playing experience.
Referees:
available on request.
Additional information:
Eclectic Actor

License & Passport

Driver's License: Yes

Skills

Secondary Job Title Acting Coach
Job Titles Writer, Director, Wardrobe / Wardrobe Support, Props Master, Prop Maker, Set Artist / Designer, General Staff, Teacher
Years in industry less than a year
Work Permits Canada