Making Spirits Bright: Fan interview with Zeliboba’s senior performer Stanislav Klimushkin

In August 2018 I’ve managed to contact none other but a puppeteer, a voice actor and an advertiser Stanislav “Stas” Klimushkin himself. As well as got to know his point of view and the story of how “Ulitsa Sezam”’s most known character, Zeliboba the Dvorovoi (spirit of the playground), had been brought to life. Although Stas works only as a voice actor and an advertiser at the moment, he shared a lot of warm memories from his days in the Russian “Sesame”.

Julia K., yours truly: In your CV on the voice actors portal you mentioned that you got a part in Russian “Sesame Street" thanks to an accidental casting. How many more people were on the casting besides you? What exactly got you interested in the opportunity to cooperate with “Sesame”?

Stanislav Klimushkin: In 1993, having graduated from the Gnessinka (Gnessin State Musical College - J. K.), I, along with other students, was taken to MOGTYZ – Moscow regional theatre of the young spectator. Three years later, having played their whole repertoire, I started to feel that I was reaching my professional “ceiling”… Until one day, when one of the actors rushed in our dressing room, shouting, “Guys, there are Americans casting actors for a new TV project!” So I thought, that could be it.

 

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