Director Valery Ushakov on the production:

An actor of theater and cinema, the director of “While The Rain Was Falling”, Valery Ushakov, graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theater School in 2008, and in the same year was accepted to the troupe of Moscow’s revered Vakhtangov Theater. Over the past 15 years, he has appeared in dozens of productions, most memorably in Rimas Tuminas’ multi-award winning adaptation of “Eugene Onegin”, Anzelika Cholina’s modern dance production of “Anna Karenina”, and Yury Butusov’s wildly reimagined Mikhail Bulgakov’s “Flight”. Valery received the Laureate of the Moscow City Award in 2017 in the field of literature and art in the category “Theater Arts”. That same year, he made his directorial, releasing the play “Marquez. Without Words“, now titled “While the Rain was Falling”.