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Arshaluys Harutyuyan

Director, Producer
Date of Birth26․01.1977
Place of birthGermany, Potsdam
EducationDepartment of Acting at Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinema, workshop of Zaven Tatentsyan course
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1995: Winner of the Youth Festival “Theater Spring”,
2013: Laureate of the STDAA “Artavazd” Award in the category “Best Performance of the Year”,
2015: Awarded an honorary medal by the city of Yerevan for his contributions to the field of theater art,
2015: Received the title “Honored Artist of the Republic of Armenia” for his contributions to stage art.

He first appeared on stage at the age of seven under the direction of Kh. Abrahamyan at the V. Achemyan Drama Theatre in Leninakan. As an actor, he has performed in more than 40 stage productions and films. From 1984 to 1994, he worked at the Leninakan Drama Theatre; from 1988 to 1992, at the Yerevan Sundukyan National Academic Theatre; and from 1995 to 1998, at the Yerevan State Theatre for Young Audiences. Since 1996, he has been working at the Yerevan State Chamber Theatre as both a director and an actor. He was also the author and host of several television programs produced by “Yerkat” and “Yan TV.”

In 2001, on the occasion of the 1700th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity, he staged the large-scale open-air rock opera Grigor the Illuminator at the Cascade Complex. Since 2009, he has served as the head of the “Yerkat” Cultural Club. He has participated in more than 30 national and international theatre and film festivals.

Productions

  • Miss Hell: An Ungodly Comedy, written by Ara Yernjakyan

  • The Feast of Caesar, a historical psychodrama, based on Edvard Radzinsky’s Theatre of Nero and Seneca

  • Wanted: A Young Man, remake, based on Carole Fréchette’s play Jean and Béatrice

  • The Boys Go Too Far, based on Ara Yernjakyan’s play Etudes About Women

  • The Black Box, based on Paolo Genovese’s film script Perfect Strangers

  • Scotch & Whiskey, based on Jean Balde’s play The Prisoners in Love

  • Grigor the Illuminator, a rock opera by Aram Sukiasyan, inspired by Mkrtich Ishkhanyan’s How Hard It Is to Die

Antrepriz (Independent) Performances

  • Unknown Subscriber

  • Wedding Ping Pong

  • Unknown Subscriber (second version)

  • Art Psychosis

Filmography

Directorial Works
(See also: [IMDB – Arshaluys Harutyunyan])

  • 2025 — Precious Boys, feature film, produced by Sharm Holding and Mitoyan Production

  • 2022 — Operation Honorable Beggars, TV drama, produced by Public Television of Armenia

  • 2021 — Our Yard: 25 Years Later, feature film, produced by Public Television of Armenia, Sharm Holding, Mitoyan Production

  • 2020 — Wedding Behind the Lines, feature film

  • 2020 — Heroes Who Defeated Fascism, documentary film

  • 2019 — Unknown Subscriber, feature film

  • 2018 — Meeting Place, TV drama, produced by Public Television of Armenia

  • 2017 — Honeymoon, short feature film, produced by Sharm Pictures

  • 2016 — Fathers, adventure action film, produced by Berg Sound (Russia)

  • 2015 — Scotch & Whiskey, feature film

  • 2014 — Sniper 2: Right to Kill, action film, produced by Berg Sound (Russia)

  • 2013 — The Mountaineers, action film, produced by Berg Sound (Russia)

  • 2011 — Wanderer, rock-opera film

Producer Works

  • 2015 — Zhanna, comedy film, directed by A. Yernjakyan

  • 2014 — In the Dark, feature film, directed by A. Yernjakyan

  • 2012 — The Jubilee Client, feature film, directed by A. Yernjakyan

ARMINE NAZARI-DEKHNAVI

In 2017 graduated from the faculty of acting and directing at the Yerevan State Institute of Theater and Cinema (Ara Yernzhakyan). She starred in the short film by Arshaluys Harutyunyan’s “Honeymoon” of the movie “The Roads of Our Dreams”.

Since 2017 she is an actress of the Chamber Theater. Engaged in the following performances: “Romeo & Juliet”, “No man, no problem”, “It doesn’t matter with whom,” “Cabaret Restart”, etc.

 

ANI GRIGORYAN

Graduated from the faculty of Musical Comedy of Yerevan State 

Institute of Theatre and Cinematography as an Actress of Theatre and Cinema.

Singer of Popular Club “Jose”.

Actress of the Chamber Theatre since 2010.

27.03.2013 – Ani Grigoryan won the ATWU yearly award “Artavazd” for “Gentlemen, Everything Is Collapsing but we Can Still Live and Have Fun” in the “Best Young Actress” category.

27.03.2013 – Ani Grigoryan was awarded with a letter of appreciation from the head of RA National Assembly.

Very Love Story

Premiere11.05.2008
Age16+

Actors:
Georgy Amiragyan
Grigor Baghdasaryan
Manuk Hakhverdyan
Arshaluys Harutyunyan
Andranik Harutyunyan
Catherine Manasyan
Nonna Grigoryan
Rafayel Yeranosyan
Senik Barseghyan
Ani Grigoryan
Hasmik Danielyan
Sergey Hayrapetyan
Mkhitar Avetisyan

Stories about eternal love.
A play where emotions erupt like a volcano, reaching “The Last Day of Pompeii”… 

Autor

Ara Yernjakyan 
Dramaturg and Director

It Doesn’t Matter with Whom

Director of the play – Lusine Yernjakyan.

The play opened on May 16, 2009 in Yerevan.

09.11.2018 – Presented the play “It Doesn’t Matter with Whom” fully renovated and with the performance of new actors. Cast: Zhora Martirosyan, Armine Nazari-Dekhnavi, Luiza Nersisyan, Zhora Hovhannisyan. The director of the play is Lusine Yernjakyan.

All Don Baker wants is a place of his own away from his over-protective mother. Don is setting up in a New York apartment and making the acquaintance of his off-the-wall, liberated, actress neighbor Jill. Don learns the kind of things from Jill that his mother would never have taught him! And Jill learns from Don what growing up and being free is really all about.

OR*

Butterflies Are Free (1969), a play by Leonard Gershe. To escape his domineering mother, Don Baker has taken his own apartment in New York. The decision is a brave one, since Don is totally blind. Before long Don is having an affair with his new neighbor, the slightly kooky actress Jill Tanner, but his mother will not leave Don alone. She and Jill are soon locked in battle, and for a while, it seems that Mrs. Baker will scare Jill into leaving Don. When Jill claims she simply does not want to be tied down to anyone, Don recognizes it as her unwillingness to commit to anyone, calling her “emotionally retarded… crippled. I’d rather be blind.” Jill stays and Don’s mother finally lets him live his own life. 

OR*

*Don Baker, blind since birth, has moved to Manhattan in an attempt to make it as a songwriter. It is the first time he has been on his own, away from his over-protective mother. 

When Jill, his free-spirited “flower child” neighbor, comes into his life, Don finds himself initially amused, and soon attracted to her. When mom arrives unexpectedly and finds the two of them together, fireworks erupt and the characters are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their personal foundations

The performance “It Doesn’t Matter with Whom” is the second independent work of young director Lusine Yernjakyan in Yerevan Chamber Theatre. She tries to put on performance psychological plays, presenting herself to the audience with unique youth style.”

Satenik Hovakimyan, “The way the performance is presented determines whether it is going to be successful or collapse”, “Iravunk de facto”, 30.03.2010

06.10.2009 – Armenia, Yerevan. “It Doesn’t Matter with Whom” play was presented at the 7th International Performing Arts Festival “HIGHFEST” and received a Diploma. Director of the play – Lusine Yernjakyan.

12.11.2009 – Armenia, Yerevan; “It Doesn’t Matter With Whom” play was presented at the IV Republican festival of young theatrical directors and received a Diploma. Director of the play – Lusine Yernjakyan.

06.03.2010 – Armenia, Yerevan, “It Doesn’t Matter With Whom” play was presented at The 3rd Republican festival “Theatre-X” and received a Diploma. Director of the play – Lusine Yernjakyan.

27.03.2009 – The annual “Artavazd” prize was awarded to Lili Elbakyan in the nomination “Best youngest actress” for her performance in “It Doesn’t Matter With Whom”.

14.10.2010 – Armenia, Yerevan; “It Doesn’t Matter With Whom” play was presented at the V Republican festival of young theatrical directors and received a Diploma. Director of the play – Lusine Yernjakyan.

29.11.2010 – Armenia, Yerevan; “It Doesn’t Matter With Whom” play was presented at the First International Open Festival “The recovery of present” of the contemporary dramatic composition.

16.10.2011 –  USA, Yerevan Chamber Theater presented the performance “It Doesn’t Matter with Whom”, as part of International Theater Festival in Los Angeles “Theaters of the World”, invited by the company “ASA ART INC”, on the stage of “Beyond the Stars Palace” (Glendale, CA).

Neroн

Premiere08.10.1986, 28.10.1995, 02.04.2003
Age16+

Actors:
Arshaluys Harutyunyan
Luiza Nersisyan
Andranik Harutyunyan

Based on the play by E. Radzinsky “The Theater of Nero and Seneca”

A trial, a “comedy” of life, unlimited power, cruelty.

Autor

Ara Ernjakyan
Director

Cabaret Restart

Author of the play – Ara Yernjakyan, director of the play – Lusine Yernjakyan.

The premiere took place on February 22, 2018 in Yerevan.

Romeo & Juliet

Director, Costume Designer and Scenography of the play – Lusine Yernjakyan.

The premiere took place on 17.03.2017 in Yerevan.

The story of eternal love, in the interpretation of the Yerevan Chamber Theater.

Cast: 

Juliet – Armine Nazari-Dekhnavi, 

Romeo – Jora Martirosyan

Benvolia – Hasmik Danielyan

Mercutio – Jora Hovhannisyan

Tybalt – Vahagn Kirakosyan

Montague – Grigor Baghdasaryan

Lady Montague – Nonna Grigoryan, Hrachuhi Amiryan

Capulet – Mkhitar Avetisyan

Lady Capulet – Ketrin Manasyan

Friar Laurence – Senik Barseghyan

The Nurse – Nonna Grigoryan, Hrachuhi Amiryan

Balthasar – Mayis Hambardzumyan

Paris – Mher Alabeghyan

03; 06.10.2017 – Armenia, Yerevan. “Romeo and Juliet” play was presented at the “HIGHFEST” 15th International Performing Arts Festival and received a Diploma. Director of the play – Lusine Yernjakyan. 

22.10.2017 – As part of the “Cultural Stop” program, initiated by the Ministry of Culture of RA, in the Gyumri State Drama Theater named after V. Atchemyan of Shirak region, Yerevan State Chamber Theater presented the performance “Romeo and Juliet”. Director of the play – L. Yernjakyan.

27.03.2018 – On The World Theater Day, at the annual awards ceremony “Artavazd”, held by the Union of Theater Workers of Armenia, the performance with innovative approaches “Romeo and Juliet” (based on the play W. Shakespeare) was declared the winner in the nomination “Best Youth Performance”. Director, costume designer and stage designer – Lusine Yernjakyan.

30.09.2018 – Within the framework of the Second International Symposium “Shakespeare at the crossroads of the East and West” of the Armenian Shakespeare Association, dedicated to the Armenian genius actor Vahram Papazian, “Romeo & Juliet” play was presented at the Yerevan State Chamber Theater, after which a meeting was held with the creative staff and foreign Shakespearean scholars.

04.11.2018 – “Romeo and Juliet” play was presented at the 13th Yerevan International Shakespeare Theatre Festival. Director of the play – Lusine Yernjakyan. 

30.09.2018 –  Within the framework of the International seminar “Shakespeare at the crossroads of East and West” of the Armenian Shakespeare Association, on the initiative of well-known foreign Shakespeare scholars, in the Yerevan Chamber Theater took place a viewing and further discussion of the “Romeo & Juliet”performance.
As a result, the Yerevan Chamber Theater received an invitation from the Artistic Director of the Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival,Professor Jerzy Limon, to take part at the 23rd GdańskShakespeare Festival, which is the only festival in Poland, and one of just five in Europe, to receive the prestigious EFFE Award.

30.07.2019 The performance “Romeo & Juliet” was held in a filled theater hall (585 people) and received a great response from the spectators and theater experts.

Magic Bal

Author of the play – Ara Yernjakyan.

Director – Lusine Yernjakyan.

The premiere took place on 26.09.2013 in Yerevan.

What about all the dreams of children? Of course it’s improbable fantastic adventures, brave princes winning evil wizards, wonderful princesses and all miracles. 

You can see all this in the remarkable musical fairy tale “Magic Ball”. Yes, not only you’ll see, but also you’ll be able to help Prince and Princess to overcome all obstacles and to win against Evil Wizard that the Magic Ball could begin at least … 

If you like adventures, we invite you to journey to the Red Rose Kingdom where joyful, playful, brave heroes like you live.

If Bibabo and his dishonest friends will not spoil the main clock of Kingdom, the Magic Bal will start right on time.

Festivals, Tours:

20.04.2014 – Armenia, Yerevan, musical performance for children “Magic Bal” was presented at the VII Republican Theatre Festival “Theatre X”. Author of the play – Ara Yernjakyan, director of the play – Lusine Yernjakyan.