Dragunkina Irina

Biography

Artist of theatrical and decorative art. Works as a painter, mainly in the genre of abstract landscape. She was born in Saratov in 1962, in a family of architects. She graduated from the A. P. Bogolyubov Saratov Art School with a degree in decorative design, and from the N. I. Vavilov Saratov State Agrarian University with a degree in Landscape Architecture.
She began her career at the Teremok Saratov Regional Puppet Theatre. As a puppet theater stage designer, she has staged a number of plays in Saratov, Vladimir, Volgograd, Moscow, Nizhny Tagil, Donetsk, and Grodno (Belarus). After completing her studies in Zhostov painting in Moscow, she worked as a chief artist for the Russian House art and commercial company. Since 1992, she has been the head of the art and decoration department at the I. A. Slonov Saratov State Academic Drama Theater. She also collaborates as an artist with the Puppet Theater of Papa Carlo.