Specialists in the Michael Chekhov Technique

NIKOLAI GUZOV trained as an actor and director at the St. Petersburg Academy Of Theatre Arts in Russia.  Following his education, he became a permanent company member of The Komisarjevsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, appearing in over 20 productions including Bulgakov’s Mad Giordan, Bernard Shaw’s Antony And Cleopatra, Dumas’ Lady Of The Camelias, and Alexis Tolstoy’s trilogy of Ivan The Terrible, Tzar Feodor and Boris Godunov.  At other venues in St. Petersburg, he directed productions of The Asphalt River, The Dictatorship Of Honor, and Chekhov’s Vaudevilles, as well as a theatrical adaptation of Heinrich Boll’s The Clown.  During these years, he also taught acting both at the Academy and at The Acting School of Russian Drama.  In 1994, he was invited by the theatre department of Bucknell University, in Pennsylvania, to conduct a workshop on the Russian Avant Garde, focusing on the works of 20^th Century Masters Vsevolod Myerhold, Yevgeny Vakhtangov, and Michael Chekhov.  While in the Los Angeles area, he has directed productions of Private Wars, Lone Star, and The Ice Cream Shop, as well as the highly successful Five Women Wearing The Same Dress.  In the spring of this year, he directed Striptease On A Summer’s Day, an evening of short plays by Slawomir Mrozek, at New Jersey Repertory in Long Branch, New Jersey, as part of their Script In Hand Series.  After relocating to the United States in 1996, he began teaching private lessons at his home in Los Angeles.  Since then, his practice has expanded into a busy studio in North Hollywood. 

Nikolai Guzov Acting Studio