Michael Ugarov was born in Arkhangelsk in 1956, is a playwright, a director and a script writer, graduated from the Gorki literary institute (department of drama), lives in Moscow, is the art director of "Lubimovka" Festival of young drama, the art director of "Teatr.doc", one of leaders of the “New drama” festival, his debut as a director was in 2002 with his own play “Death of Ilya Ilyich” (“Oblom off») at the Playwright and Director theater, he made theatrical productions at Teatr.doc, "Praktika” theatre, “School of modern plays” theatre, ET CETERA theatre as an assistant of director Kalyagin, Chekhov Moscow Art theatre (MAT).