She studied at Samara State Institute of Arts and she has been working at the Department of scenic speech of GITIS since 1981. She worked at the acting faculty in workshops of V. Levertov and B. Morozov and also at directing faculty in workshops of A. Efros, A. Goncharov, A. Vasiliev, P. Fomenko, S. Zhenovach. She is teaching scenic speech at Moscow International University named after H. Popov.