Praudin Anatoly Arkadyevich (b. 1961, Riga) — theatre director. Son of PhD K. F. Katz and People’s Artist of the Latvian SSR R. B. Praudina.

In 1986 Anatoly Praudin graduated from the directing faculty of the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography (LGITMiK). From 1987 he worked at the Sverdlovsk (later Yekaterinburg) Theatre for Young Spectators (TYuZ). His first directing work was Judas Iscariot by Leonid Andreyev (1988), which received first prize at the All-Russian Festival of Theatres for Young Spectators and Puppet Theatres.

He staged the productions Alice Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll and Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw (both in 1991), as well as The Russian Misanthrope (based on Woe from Wit by Alexander Griboyedov, 1992).

In 1992 he directed The Absent-Minded Man (after works by Samuil Marshak), which received awards at theatre festivals in Greece, Sweden and Berlin. In the same year he staged N. Skorokhod’s play The Ring and the Rose with the Russian troupe of the Riga TYuZ.

From 1993 he worked at the A. S. Pushkin Leningrad Drama Theatre. In 1994 he staged Monsieur Georges. A Russian Drama by Skorokhod, based on the prose of Mikhail Lermontov.

State Prize of the RSFSR (1991).