“Dostoyevsky’s work is honest and sincere,” he says. In 2000, he was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for directing the company’s production of “The Idiot.” He staged three major adaptations of the novelist’s work during his eight-year tenure with the Stanislavsky Theater Studio in Washington, D.C. Malaev-Babel has spent much of his career studying the Russian author. “I consider him to be one of the most theatrical novelists, not because he’s flashy or in-your-face, but because he condenses the human experience … this kind of existence on the threshold of life and death, good and evil.” “I’m fascinated by him,” says the 44-year-old actor, director and teacher. There are plays by Edward Albee, Neil Simon and Bertolt Brecht.īuried among the titles are Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s major works. There are books by Anton Chekhov, William Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf. There are books about how to perform plays, write plays, direct plays, analyze plays and, when you’ve got the time, watch plays. Andrei Malaev-Babel’s second-story office at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training is filled with so many books you fear grabbing one might cause the entire room to collapse.

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