We were lucky to catch up with Misha Suvorov recently and have shared our conversation below.

Misha, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

Being a performing artist most valuable tool you have is your artists voice. While building it, I wouldn’t pay much attention what I was using it for. I was laser focused on my career.

As funny as it is, I was political activist for as far as I can remember myself. But it never came across my mind, that I can use my artistic voice to project my political views.

So, this mismatch of my being politically chargers in non-artistic life and absolutely muted for that matter as an artist was building up a lot of tension, till it resolved earlier this year, when I decided to pick up an anti-war solo-show The Border by Sergei Davydov.

I think that was the missing piece of my artistic puzzle and it feels that I was just idling before as an artist. Working on something that you really care about gives you wings, empowers and inspires to push the envelope and really expose as an artist.

I know that a lot work to come my way, which is not as relatable for me as The Border and Art Against War Festival, but I definitely know how important it is to choose in favor of relatable material.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I was born and raised in Saint Petersburg, Russia in a very artsy and liberal family of soviet style intelligentsia. Lots of music and creative juice flowing around our house. Family and friends were the first audience of mine and my sister house puppet theatre. I think that’s when an acting bug bit me.

I had to put on pause my creative exploration to study finance and get a ‘real job’ since the money was tight and I was scared for my future. It didn’t take me long to realize that I’ll never miserable doing anything, but arts.

In early twenties I reintroduced myself to creative work through writing, which I did for quite sometime before my longing for stage took over. I studied Stanislavsky and Checkov’s’ techniques in my home town before entering theatrical stage.

After landing in LAX on Christmas of 2013 I entered Sanford Meisner Center for Arts to complete the class of Ranjive Perrera and become an American actor now.

11 years later I’m still continuing to grow and build my chops as a performer and it feels like I’ve barely began to explore the wonders of given imaginary circumstances.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

Being exposed, emotionally naked, available in front of the other human beings is the biggest joy and reward there possibly is in life. We are social species and we only exist by being witnessed.

For me there’s nothing like to be witnessed while being on staged, feeling connected emotionally my people, being plugged in into this magical mycelium of subconscious field of emotions that connects us and makes us humans.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative?

I feel it’s paramount to understand artists are driven by emotions rather than mind. We all are in a sense and it’s a know fact that we make emotional impulsive decisions rather than intellectual ones. In artist, that emotional component is even stronger, at many instances overlapping the power of cold intellectual calculation.

It’s also important to relate to fragility of an artist – being emotionally exposed and witnessed takes a lot of courage and yet you’ll find so many artists who are so vulnerable to the impacts of the outside world.

Be patient and tender with an artist!

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.art-dep.org
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mishasuvorovofficial/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553813205116
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Misha.S.Suvorov
• Other: https://www.art-dep.org/the-border-theater

Image Credits

hoto credits: Alec Wolvec