Artur Utmazyan

He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Yerevan State University in 1971. Since 1968, he has been an actor at the Yerevan Drama Theatre. Some of his best roles include: Manchuk (in Makayonek’s The Persecuted Apostle, winner of the 1st prize at the All-Union Theater Festival, Moscow, 1973), Brutus and Tybalt (in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet), Ruben Sevak and Judas (in Zeytuntsyan’s The Great Silence and Jesus of Nazareth and His Second Disciple, the latter awarded the “Artavazd” prize of the National Theater Academy in 2000), the Poet (in The Eternal Return, based on Paruyr Sevak), and others. He has also performed recitations abroad (England, USA, Beirut, Canada), with a repertoire that includes works by Paruyr Sevak, Silva Kaputikyan, Hamo Sahyan, and others. He is considered one of the leading actors of the Yerevan Drama Theater.