OUR TEAM
OLIVER KING - DIRECTOR
After graduating from Durham University Oliver trained as an actor at Drama Centre London & The Boris Schukin Theatre School in Moscow before turning his hand to producing. He is the director of award winning production and general management company, Wild Yak Productions, as well as Belka Productions. His producing and general management credits for stage include the Olivier Award nominated What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, the multi off-West End Award winning The White Factory, The Price, Seagull: True Story, The Government Inspector, Kadimah Yiddish Theatre's Yentl and The Last Word (all Marylebone Theatre), the UK return of Slava's SnowShow (Harold Pinter & UK Touring), Dr Strangelove (Noel Coward), Glengarry Glen Ross (Palace Theatre, Broadway), The Mongol Khan (London Coliseum & Marina Bay Sands, Singapore), Restless Natives the Musical (Perth Theatre & Scottish Touring), The United Ukrainian Ballet's Giselle (London Coliseum), The Egyptians & The Suppliant Women (both Gulbenkian Arts Centre), the Belarus Free Theatre's Counting Sheep (VAULT Festival), Tartuffe, Life & Fate, Uncle Vanya (all Theatre Royal Haymarket), Death Note the Musical (London Palladium & Lyric), Queens of Syria (Young Vic, New London & UK Tour), The Maly Drama Theatre's Three Sisters (Vaudeville) The Sovremnnik Theatre Season (Piccadilly Theatre), And Here I Am (UK Tour & International Tour), Requiem for Aleppo (Sadlers Wells & Touring), Andrei Konchalovsky's Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya (Wyndham's), Donkey Heart (Trafalgar Studios), Luce (Southwark Playhouse), A Dashing Fellow (New Diorama), A Warsaw Melody (Arcola Theatre) and Piranha Heights (Old Red Lion).
Oliver is a member of the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) and the League of Independent Producers. For his services to culture he was awarded Mongolia's highest award conferred on foreign citizens, the Order of the Polar Star.
OLEG MIROCHNIKOV - CO-FOUNDER
Oleg trained as an actor at the Belorussian Academy of Theatre and Art in Minsk and performed extensively in film, stage and TV in his native country before coming to Western Europe. As a Theatre Director and Acting Coach, he has worked throughout Europe and the UK. His work draws equally from the three great masters of the Russian stage: Stanislavski, Meyerhold and Vakhtangov. He has trained generations of successful actors including the likes of Russel Brand, Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy and Emilia Clarke.
EKATERINA KASHYNTSEVA - SENIOR PARTNER
Following a career in the fashion industry, Ukrainian born Ekaterina retrained as an art historian, completing her Masters in Contemporary Art at Glasgow University. Her first theatrical project was coordinating the 2017 London tour of the Sovremennik Theatre (Piccadilly Theatre), acting as the sponsor’s representative. Katya became a director of Belka Productions thereafter, and co-produced the 2018 Maly Drama Theatre tour of Life and Fate and Uncle Vanya (Theatre Royal Haymarket).
ROSY BENJAMIN - CO-FOUNDER
Rosy trained as an actor at Drama Centre London & The Boris Schukin Theatre School in Moscow. Rosy's stage credits include: The Ruling Class (Trafalgar Studios), Backbeat (Duke of York's), Sunstroke (Platform Theatre), The Long Road to Camden and Trenton (King's Head), La Boheme (Soho), Banquet of the Senses, Lingua (Shakespeare's Globe). Film and TV Includes: Genius, Florence Foster Jenkins, Heartstrings, Buffyand 5 Needles. Rosy co-wrote A Dashing Fellow for Belka Productions.
