Shakhmatova Elena Vasilyevna, Candidate of Art History, Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor, Head of the Scientific Department of the Russian Institute of Theatrical Art GITIS (Russia, Moscow).

Elena Vasilyevna was born on March 10, 1956 in Krasnoyarsk in 1981, State Institute of Theater Arts, Faculty of Theater Studies, specialty theater studies (awarded the qualification of theater critic and a master's degree in Art history). 1985, graduate school of GITIS, Faculty of Theater Studies, Department of History of Foreign Theater. She worked as a freelance correspondent for the newspaper Novy Vzglyad (Moskovskaya Pravda), senior researcher at the Art Theory Sector of the Russian Institute of Cultural Studies, Moscow, Associate Professor of the Department of Cultural Studies and Management in Culture of the State University of Management (GUU), Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy of GUU, Head of the Scientific Department of the Russian Institute of Theatrical Art More than 60 scientific papers have been published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and publications recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Russian Federation. Member of the Union of Theatrical Figures of the Russian Federation.