Biography

Yury Ruzhyev bouffon extravaganza heavy drinker & moderate thinker tactfully sarcastic he puts the hot in psychotic easily distracted & obsessively .. *

Yury is an actor, performer, clown, bouffon, dancer, magician, acrobat, aerialist, director, writer, and producer in film, theatre, stage and circus.

Originally from Moscow, now living in Toronto. He studied theatre, and acting in Moscow at Boris Shukin Theatre School, Performance Arts at Green Theatre in Moscow, and Circus skills at Zero Gravity Circus in Toronto. He obtained MBA from Moscow University because his mother told him so.

Ruzhyev does TV and Film work for major TV Series, Feature FIlms, Web-series and Indi productions.

Yury has years of experience in performing arts, as a Cabaret performer, dancer, and director. His one-man impersonations show - Viva Cabaret has been entertaining audiences on three continents, including cities likes Moscow, New York, Vancouver, Seattle, Toronto, and Las Vegas for nine years.

Ruzhyev has hosted and planned over 1000 events and weddings all around the world.

In 2014 Yury's theatre company Hooligans produced "Komunka" - a play about gay rights in Russia, and Sochi Olympic Games. Summer 2015 brought a theatre project - In The Dark - exploration of personal taboos and sexual liberties.

Yury is a co-creator and a performer in circus show "Yo-Luna", entertaining audiences with acrobatics and clown acts and he is working on a new solo circus project "No Elephant Circus Show".

Yury Ruzhyev is a one-man circus where he gets to be a ring master, a monkey, and a tent.
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