Elena A. Semenova – PhD (of Pedagogical Sciences), Senior Researcher of the Laboratory of Literature and
Theater of the FSBSI «Institute of Art Education and Cultural Studies of the RAE» (Moscow, Russia). In 2014
he graduated from the full-time Doctoral Studies at FSBSI «Institute of Art Education and Cultural Studies of
the RAE». Author of scientific papers about clownery, carnival culture, street theater. She was starred in the
play and document films, in television programs: «Treasure» (2007), «Plus One» (2007), «Death in
Eyeglasses or Our Chekhov», (2010), «Clown in the Clownery» (2017) and others. Since 2003 she is an actress
of NP «TheatreEx» under the artistic direction of Yury Beradin. Since 2008 together with Yu. A. Berladin
creates cultural educational center «Village theatre» to find alternative ways of forming the carnival culture
of modern youth. She developed and tested the author’s technique for actors and Directors «Humor against
Irony», aimed at the formation of the carnival world-feeling. Initiator and organizer of International round
tables devoted to the study of the heritage of M. M. Bakhtin (2017, 2019 in Moscow; 2018, 2019 in Orel);
seminars, conferences on the study of the potential of street theater, carnival culture in the professions of
Аctor and Director (2016— 2019). The author of the idea and organizer of the All-Russian symposium
“Creator of Laugh” (Tver region, Toropetsky district, Krest village, 11.09-17.09.2019). Editor-compiler of
collections of materials of Bakhtin conferences: «Problema Hronotopa v sovremennyh nauchnyh issledovaniyah: Mezhdunarodnyj kruglyj stol, posvyashchennyj M.M. Bahtinu (Moskva, 19–20 aprelya 2017 goda,
Mo-skva);«Nasledie M.M. Bahtina: kul’tura — nauka — obrazovanie — tvorchestvo: Mezhdunarodnyj
kruglyj stol, posvyashchyonnyj M.M. Bahtinu (22 maya 2018 goda, Oryol). (2018); Materialy
mezhdunarodnoj Bahtinskoj nauchno-prakticheskoj konferencii «Ulichnyj teatr protiv teatra voennyh
dejstvij» (16-18 oktyabrya, Moskva, 2019).