Maria Knebel

Her students included the actor Oleg Yefremov, the playwright Viktor Rozov, and the directors Anatoly Vasiliev, Leonid Heifetz, Alexander Burdonsky, Beno Axionov, Joseph Raihelgauz, Sergei Artsibashev and Adolf Shapiro as well as director and theatre practitioner Sam Kogan. In 1958, she was named a People's Artist of the RSFSR. Her roles as an actor included Charlotta in Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, the madwoman in Alexander Ostrovsky's The Storm, and Sniffles in Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird at the Moscow Art Theatre. In 1968, she directed a production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. In 2021, an English translation of her research and practice of Active Analysis was published by Routledge with Anatoli Vassiliev (Editor), Irina Brown (Translator).

The recorded working language is Russian. Employment is recorded with Moscow Art Theatre. Distinctions recorded are USSR State Prize, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Order of the Red Banner of Labour and Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

• Name — Maria Knebel • Birthplace — Moscow, Russian Empire • Died — 1 June 1985 • Place of death — Moscow, Soviet Union • Occupation — Actress, theatre director, theatre practitioner • Parents — Joseph Knebel (father) • Birth Name — Maria Iosifovna Knebel • Years Active — 1924–1980

The canonical record carries the following identifying particulars.

On origins, the institutional record states the following. Knebel died in 1985 at Moscow. Recorded at birth as Мария Осиповна Кнебель. It is also recorded that maria Knebel was born in 1898 at Moscow.