Yevgeni Valeryevich Grishkovetz is a popular Russian writer, dramatist, stage director, actor and musician. He is widely known as the author of witty solo performances. Grishkovets has staged authorial plays Odnovremenno, Planeta, Drednouty, Osada, Titanic, po Po and+1 and published a number of his books: collected plays Gorod, Kak ya syel sobaku, the novel Rubashka, the story Reki and collected stories Planka.