Alla Grigorievna Kigel (Алла Кигель; born 1932) is a Russian theatre director.
Her father, Gregory Lvovich Kigel (Григорий Львович Кигель), was a theater designer.
[2] In 1945, Kigel made her directorial debut at her school with Balzac's Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes and an adaptation of Pushkin's The Gypsies.
In 1950, she was refused admission into the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts.
Kigel instead pursued a career as a criminal lawyer, and gained a master's degree in law, from Moscow State University in 1954.