Background
MAR’YANENKO, Ivan was born on June 9, 1878 in village March’yanovka, now Kirovograd Oblast. Son of a peasant.
MAR’YANENKO, Ivan was born on June 9, 1878 in village March’yanovka, now Kirovograd Oblast. Son of a peasant.
1895 completed college. Studied stagecraft under his uncle, M. L. Kropivnitskiy.
1896— 1906 with Kropivnitskiy and Suslov’s drama companies. 1906-1918 at Sadovskiy Theater, Kiev. 1918-1923 at Shevchenko and Zan’kovetskaya Theaters, Kiev.
1923-1958 at Kahr’kov’s Shevchenko Drama Theater. From 1917 also taught stagecraft. From 1946 professor, Khar’kov Institute of Stagecraft.
From 1915 founder-director, Association of Ukraine Artists. 1917 co-founder, Ukraine National Theater. Played over 300 roles and staged many plays at Ukraine theaters.
Roles: Omel’ko in Karpenko-Karyy’s “Martyn Borulya”. Gonta in Caydemaki (The Haydemaks), after Shevchenko. Don Juan in Lesya Ukrainka’s Kamennyy vlastelin (The Stone Sovereign).
Yaroslav in Kocherga’s Yaroslasv Mudryy (Yaroslav the Wise). Bogdan in Korneychuk’s “Bogdan Khmel’nitskiy”. Prokhor in Gorky's “Vassa Zheleznova".
Dikiy in Ostrovskiy’s Groza (The Storm). Khlcstakov in Gogol's Revizor (The Government Inspector). Mikola in Kotlyarevskiy's “Natalka Poltavka”, et cetera