Beginnings
America's Most Complete
Arts Experience
for Young People.

Established 1984

America's Most Complete Arts Experience
for Young People

An approach to
professionalism as caring as
it is practical.


Staff Professional Résumé

Boris Leskin

SAG

FILM

Role

Director

Third Watch Yuri, star witness to murder TV Series
World War III Russian Foreign Minister Robert Stone

Eighteen Shades of Dust

Janitor

 Danny Aiello, Jr.
Men in Black Cook Barry Blumenfeld
The Vampire's Kiss Funny Cabby Robert Burman
The Pursuit of Happiness Documentary Louis Malle

The House on Carroll Street

Nazi Collaborator

Peter Yates

Cadillac Man

Russian Customer

Roger Donaldson

The American Story

Angry Man

Chantal Ackerman

The Package

Foreign Minister

Andrew Davis

New York Undercover

Gun Shop Owner

TV Series

A Couch in New York

Checker Cab Driver

Chantal Ackerman

The Falcon and the Snowrnan

Russian Ambassador

John Schiessinger

MCI International Series; Bd. of Ed. Public Service "Crossword"; "Kodak"; "Statue of Liberty" TV Commercials
 

AMERICAN PALACE THEATER, New York City (rehearsed readings)
In Russian Circles, by Marina Shron

 
The A M. Gorky Bolshoi Dramatic Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia

The Threepenny Opera

Mack the Knife
The Career of Arturo Ui Givola
The Cherry Orchard Yasha, Yepihodov
Three Sisters Chebutikin
The Seagull Doctor Dorn
The Idiot Gavril Ivolgin
The Inspector General Hlestakov
The Servant of Two Masters Truffaldino
Enemies The Prosecutor
The Price Solomon
A Memory of Two Mondays Bert
A Moon for the Misbegotten Mr. Hogan
Hamlet First Gravedigger
Twelfth Night Malvolio
A Midsummer Night's Dream Bottom
Pygmalion Mr. Doolittle
Our Town Simon Simpson

DIRECTING
Several plays in New York City, including Gogol's comedy, "The Marriage"
Over 35 plays for theatre and television in St. Petersburg and Moscow

 Endorsement letter from Mikhail Baryshnikov  

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Special thanks to Dr. Kevin Kolack, Mia Valdez, Tracy Pence, Sybil Sklar and Cheryl Woolwine.

Last Updated: 01/24/2006 06:47 PM