Jahangir Mutallib oghlu Novruzov was born on 31 July 1954 in Baku. His father, Novruzov Mutallib Nasrulla oghlu, was born in 1927 and taught mugham for many years at the Asaf Zeynalli Baku Music School. Jahangir Novruzov finished secondary school in 1971. He then entered the directing faculty of the Mirzaagha Aliyev Institute of Arts, studying in the class led by People's Artist of the USSR Mehdi Mammadov, and graduated from the institute in 1976. He defended his diploma work by staging Georgi Khugayev's operetta "My Beloved's Mother" on the stage of the Musical Comedy Theatre. That same year he received his assignment and began working at that theatre. From 1976 to 1977 he did his military service, after which he returned to the Musical Comedy Theatre. In 1979 he was appointed stage director at the Sabit Rahman Sheki State Drama Theatre. On this theatre's stage he also played many roles as an actor. In 1981 he was admitted to the faculty for leading personnel of the USSR Ministry of Culture's Institute for the Advanced Training of Cultural Workers, and at the same time began an internship at the Malaya Bronnaya Theatre in Moscow under the direction of People's Artist of the RSFSR, Professor A. Efros. Over two years he assisted A. Efros in staging numerous productions. In 1983, having completed his studies in Moscow, he returned to the Sheki theatre. In 1984 he was admitted to the creative laboratory of People's Artist of the USSR, Professor G. Tovstonogov, and until 1988 took part in sessions in Saint Petersburg twice a year. In 1985 he was appointed chief director of the Sheki theatre. During his years there, he took the theatre on tour to Kazan, Tashkent, Samarkand, Moscow and Prague. In 1986 he took part as a jury member at the "Ceske Budejovice" young theatres festival in Czechoslovakia. In 1987, at a theatre festival organised by the Azerbaijan Ministry of Culture and dedicated to the 175th anniversary of Mirza Fatali Akhundov, he won first prize for his production of "Monsieur Jourdain and Dervish Mastali Shah." In 1988 he took part as a jury member at the "Bouvine" theatre festival in Paris. In 1989 he was appointed by the Ministry of Culture as chief director of the Musical Comedy Theatre. In 1990, because the theatre began major renovations and new construction, he was appointed chief director of the Russian section of the Young Spectators' Theatre. In 1991, at the First Mono-Performance Festival organised by the Union of Theatre Workers of Azerbaijan, he won first prize for his production "To Be or Not to Be," based on the motifs of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." In 1995 he was invited to the Republic of Turkey to teach at a university. He currently works in the theatre department of the State Conservatory of Cukurova University in Adana, Turkey.
