Daughter of Anatoli Grebnev and co-founder of Teatr Doc with her husband Mikhail Ugarov.
She created her own last name by combining her father's last name with that of her mother, Galina Mindadze, a literary translator.
On the side, she wrote scripts for TV series, including "Adjutants of Love," a historical drama about czarist Russia. This income helped finance Teatr.doc.