(1874 – 1940) was a Russian theatrical producer, director, and actor whose provocative experiments in unconventional theater made him one of the seminal forces in modern theater. Meyerhold, like Constantin Stanislavski and Lee Strasberg, helped to redefine modern theater by employing new methods of acting that were more in keeping with the changing trends in the drama that were initiated by Anton Chekhov.
The realism of the modern drama, focusing on the struggles of man in the urban setting, required a different method of presentation. Meyerhold used one based on the system of biomechanics.
