Work with Actors Theatre

Yury Urnov (Director) is an award-winning American theater director and producer. In 2024, Yury received the highest US theater award as a co-artistic director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia (Best Regional Theater Tony Award). The performance of My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion he directed was named the Best Theatre Production in Washington DC of 2024 (Helen Hayes Award). The Wilma of Philadelphia Yury leads is one of the best-known experimental theaters nationwide in the United States. It is specifically famous for its splendid and diverse HotHouse acting company and the innovative shared-leadership model. Among other accomplishments, under Yury’s tenure, the Wilma Theater commissioned and produced the 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fat Ham by James Ijames. Yury also teaches at the Towson State University in Maryland and serves as an associate director of the Center of International Theater Development – a leading organization for international theatre exchange in the US.