Ivan Rodionovych Ovdiienko (b. 18 October 1888, Konotop - d. 29 March 1951) was a Ukrainian actor and singer (lyric tenor), theatre worker, Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.
Biography
Ivan Ovdiienko was born on 18 October 1888 in Konotop in the family of a tavern keeper.
In 1915, he joined the troupe of the Mykola Sadovskyi Theatre, where he successfully performed as a chorister and, according to Vasyl Vasylko's memoirs, "became famous for his unsurpassed singing in the chorus "Hey, don't fog the sea". Later, he became an actor in this famous collective.
In 1918, he performed in Romny.
1919 - Member of the Provisional Council of the All-Ukrainian Theatre Union.
In 1922, he worked as a director of the Ukrainian Theatre in Moscow.
Later he became one of the leading actors of the Maria Zankovetska Theatre, working first in Zaporizhzhia, and in 1944 he moved with the theatre to Lviv.
He passed away in 1951. He was buried in field 12 of the Lychakiv Cemetery.
Roles
Mykola Sadovsky Theatre
Hryts ("Oh, Don't Go, Hrytsia" by M. Starytskyi)
Postmaster (The Inspector by N. Gogol)
Anton (Fooled by M. Staritsky)
Antos ("Young Blood")
Kolomiyets, a student ("Where the Wind Blows" by S. Vasylchenko)
Andriy (The Cossack Beyond the Danube by S. Hulak-Artemovsky)
Theatre troupe in Romny
Petro (Natalka Poltavka by M. Lysenko)
Maria Zankovetska Theatre, Zaporizhzhia
Salieri (Mozart and Salieri), 1937
Kobzar Volokh (The Haidamaks by Taras Shevchenko)
Khoma Kychaty (Nazar Stodolya by Taras Shevchenko)
Bulava ("Flute Solo"), 1935
Chyrva (Dictatorship by Ivan Mykytenko), 1937
Maria Zankovetska Theatre, Lviv
Khoma Kychaty (Nazar Stodolya by Taras Shevchenko)
Ivan Kolomiytsev (The Last by Mikhail Gorky)
Vershinin (Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov)
Kuzma Ryzhov (The Truth by O. Korniychuk)
Samuel da Silva (Uriel Acosta by K. Gutskov)
Lundyshev (Masters of Time by I. Kocherha)
Berest (Platon Krechet by O. Korniychuk)
Dyak Havrylo (Bohdan Khmelnytsky by M. Starytskyi)
Satin ("At the Bottom" by M. Gorky)
