Sasha Yevtushenko

British radio drama director

Yevgeny Yevtushenko (father)
Jan Butler (mother)

Alexander "Sasha" Yevgenevich Yevtushenko (born 31 January 1979^[1]) is a director and producer of radio dramas for BBC Radio.^[3] He is a son of Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko and his third wife, English translator Jan Butler.^[1]

In 2016 an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita produced by Yevtushenko won the BBC Audio Drama Award in the Best Adaptation category.^[4] In 2018, Katie Hims' Black Eyed Girls, which he directed, won the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Series/Serial.^[5]

Selected works

As director:

The Problem of Cell 13 (2011)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2012, directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko)
Lord of the Flies (2013)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (2014)
Agamemnon (2014)
The Furies (2014)
The Voyage of the Damned (2020, audio adaptation starring Toby Jones, Paul Ritter, Allan Corduner and Philip Glenister. Based upon the book by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts. )

As producer:

The Master and Margarita (2015)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Guide to the Yevgeny Yevtushenko Papers, ca. 1920-1999ca. 1945-1997
^ Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet Who Stirred a Generation of Soviets, Dies at 83, The New York Times
^ BBC Blogs – The Rivals: The Return of Inspector Lestrade
^ BBC Audio Drama Awards 2016 Winners
^ "BBC Radio 4 - BBC Audio Drama Awards - The List of 2018 Winners". BBC. Retrieved 14 June 2019.