is a Ukrainian puppet theater director, and a teacher at The Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University.
Mykhailo Urytskyi is a laureate of international festivals and theater awards.
Biography
First higher education – actor of the puppet theater (Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts from 1982 to 1988).
Second higher education – director of the puppet theater (Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University from 2006 to 2007). M. Urytskyi is the author of the scientific work Peculiarities of psychological perception of various forms of the puppet theater by children of preschool age.
For seven years Mykhailo Urytskyi worked as an actor in the Crimean Puppet Theater (Simferopol) under the direction of Boris Azarov. He embodied on the stage images in the plays All Mice Love Cheese Dyula Urban, Shreds on the Scatter by Grigoriy Oster, The Upside Down Tale by Donald Bisset, and Snoogle by John Priestley.
In 1994 Mykhailo left the theater and organized one of the first private puppet theaters in Ukraine – the theatre of fairytale Harlequin (Ukrainian: Арлекіно; Simferopol). The first director's productions are The Steadfast Tin Soldier and The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, Peter Yershov's The Little Humpbacked Horse (Konyok-Gorbunok), Atanas Popescu's The Little Sunbeam, Carlo Gozzi's The Love for Three Oranges.
