Anton Michailovič Milenin (; Moscow, April 7, 1969) is a Russian theatre actor, director and teacher who has worked in Italy and Russia for more than fifteen years, rector of UNIVERSAL ACADEMY OF HERMENEUTICS. Biography Born and raised in Moscow, Milenin started his theatrical studies at the Moscow Art Theatre (MXAT) with Alexander Kalyagin and Alla Pokrovskaja. After three years, he abruptly changed his artistic path and joined the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) where he graduated twice: in 1991, as an actor, under the instruction of Boris Morozov and Iosif Rajchel'hauz; and in 1997, as a director, under the instruction of Vassilij Ivanic Skorik. rector of Anton Milenin. Rector of UNIVERSAL ACADEMY OF HERMENEUTICS. Career Milenin's acting debut was in 1991 at MXAT, playing with Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Stanislav Lyubshin and Victor Mirošničenko. In 1995 he received first prize at the Lithuanian Festival in Daugavpils for his direction of Diderot's Jacques the Fatalist. In 1996 he staged at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS), during Sergej Isaiev's direction, The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov. In 1997 he was invited to Europe, and worked on Dostoevsky's The Gambler at the AKT-ZENT Creative Center headed by Jurij Alschitz in Berlin. The next year he participated at the École des Maîtres with Matthias Langhoff, directing Heart Piece by Heiner Müller. In 2001, as a visiting professor, he directed the graduating students of the School of Dramatic Arts Paolo Grassi in Milan, staging Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. With Giorgio Barberio Corsetti's Company, he collaborated in Fattore K and Progetto Cechov, directing Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and The Seagull at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. The production, in which the main character of Kostja Treplev was played by a young Filippo Timi at the beginning of his career, proved to be a turning-point experience for all actors involved. He is then among the artists invited at the Festival Santarcangelo dei Teatri and at the VolterraTeatro Festival, where he directs In the Solitude of Cotton Fields by Bernard-Marie Koltès, The Gamblers by Nikolai Gogol and conducts the masterclass All’uscita del teatro dopo la rappresentazione di una nuova commedia, also inspired by Gogol's work. His study of Koltès' plays continues in 2004 with Roberto Zucco staged in Rome at the Teatro Rialto Santambrogio and at Metateatro - Casa delle Culture and in Rennes at the Dromesko. Nel 2005 he wins the