Armenian theatre people

Kasbar Ipegian (b. 1883 - d. 1952) was a Lebanese Armenian and one of the most important figures of Armenian theater. Ipegian was a lawyer by profession; he had studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and had a talent for learning foreign languages. Rather than pursue the practice of law, he became involved with shaping Armenian theater in Armenian diaspora communities around in the world including Tbilisi, Istanbul, Tehran, Baghdad and Egypt. Not long after Hamazkayin was first established in Beirut, Ipegian directed the Levon Shant play Oshin Bail and personally wrote the script for Ara and Shamiram. He became chairman of the Beirut Committee of Hamazkayin; in 1941, during his tenure as chairman, Ipegian created the Hamazkayin Theater Association, which put on plays by Shant. Papken Papazian was involved in the Association's 1943 production called Bebeks (My baby). Ipegian died in 1952. The Hamazkayin Theater Association was renamed the Hamazkayin Kasbar Ipegian Theater Company in his honor.

Vage Shakhverdyan (Armenian: Վահե Շահվերդյան; 19 August 1945 – 31 October 2022) was an Armenian stage director and politician. An independent, he served in the National Assembly from 1995 to 1999.

Nikolay Yervandi Tsaturyan (Armenian: Նիկոլայ Ծատուրյան; born January 8, 1945 in Yerevan) is an Armenian theatre director, actor and playwright, People's Artist of Armenia (2011), Professor. He is the Artistic Director of Vardan Ajemian State Drama Theatre of Gyumri.