Question: What is the first name of the Russian clown whose show won the Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event?

Context articles: Blast! (musical)
Special Tony Award
Anji (film)
Slava Polunin
Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event
No Name Players
Bobo Barnett
Elaine Stritch at Liberty
Alterian, Inc.
Slava's Snowshow

Blast!
 is a Broadway production created by James Mason for Cook Group Incorporated, the director and organization formerly operating the Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps.
 It was the 2001 winner of the Tony Award for "Best Special Theatrical Event" and also won the 2001 Emmy Award for "Best Choreography".
The Special Tony Award category includes the Lifetime Achievement Award and Special Tony Award.
 These are non-competitive honorary awards, and the titles have changed over the years.
 The Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre is to "honor an individual for the body of his or her work."
 (The Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event was a competitive award, given from 2001 to 2009.)
 Another non-competitive Tony award is the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, to "recognize the achievements of individuals and organizations that do not fit into any of the competitive categories."
Anji is a 2004 Telugu mythological fantasy thriller film (dubbed in Tamil as "Kolli Malai Singam", Hindi as "Diler" and in Malayalam as "Chekavan") with Chiranjeevi in the lead role.
 The film was produced by Shyam Prasad Reddy, and received a National Film Award for Best Special Effects.
 The film was made on a budget of 28 crore, and was officially launched on May 1997.
 Shooting of the film began on 10 October 1997.
 It is the first Telugu film to win the National Award for Best Special Effects at that time.
Vyacheslav Ivanovich “Slava” Polunin PAR (Russian: Вячеслав Иванович (Слава) Полунин ) (born 12 June 1950) is a Russian performance artist and clown.
 He is the creator of the stage spectacles "Asisyai-revue", "Slava's Snowshow" and "Diabolo".
The Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event was awarded from 2001 to 2009 to live theatrical productions that were not plays or musicals.
 The category was created after the 2000 controversy of "Contact" winning Best Musical; the show used pre-recorded music and featured no singing.
 The category was retired in 2009 allowing the shows that were previously eligible for it to be eligible in Best Play or Best Musical categories, if they met the proper criteria.
 The shows are also now eligible in other creative categories.
No Name Players is a professional theatre company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
 Founded in 2000 by Don DiGiulio at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, the theatre company began as a creative outlet for DiGiulio and his classmates to hone their craft outside of college-related performance opportunities.
 It has since evolved to become an important part of Pittsburgh's theatre scene, establishing its presence in 2004 with a production of Charles Mee's "Big Love", which was recognized as one of the Top Ten Plays of 2004 by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
 The company's mission is to "present unique and challenging theatrical productions by both new and established playwrights with an emphasis on the collaborative nature of theatre through ensemble."
 It is notable for its "SWAN Day" celebration, which is an annual theatrical event that features short plays and other performance pieces that are created primarily by women, in connection with the international holiday SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day which occurs on the last Saturday of Women's History Month.
 The company has no performance space of its own but has used performance spaces around Pittsburgh, including Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, Bricolage Production Company, and the Grey Box Theatre.
 It has received attention from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Out Online, and Pittsburgh City Paper.
Chester "Bobo" Barnett (Chester E. Barnett, better known as "Bobo the Clown") (October 23, 1903–Feb. 18, 1985) was a clown whose career lasted from the late 1920s to the early 1970s.
 He played for numerous circuses, most notably with Cole Bros.
 Clyde Beatty Circus (now known simply as Cole Bros.
 Circus) and the Shrine Circus.
 He also appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.
 Bobo is one of the main subjects of his daughter Bonnie's autobiography, "Bobo's Daughter".
Elaine Stritch at Liberty is the one-woman show directed by George C. Wolfe for The Public Theater in November 2001, which later transferred to the Neil Simon Theatre on 21 February 2002, closing on 27 May that year.
 Among its accolades, the production was recognized with the 2002 Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event and the 2002 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance.
 The documentary adaptation directed by D. A. Pennebaker aired in 2004 and was awarded Primetime Emmy Awards both for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special and Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program.
Alterian, Inc is a makeup and special effects company owned by Tony Gardner, whose makeup effects on Johnny Knoxville's character for the film "" were nominated for both an Academy Award for Best Makeup & Hairstyling and a Makeup Artist & Hair Stylist Guild Award in 2013.
 The makeup effects work won the Makeup Artist & Hair Stylist Guild Award for Best Special Makeup Effects in the Feature Film category.
Slava's Snowshow is a stage show created and staged by Russian performance artist Slava Polunin.
 The show won the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event.