Director and theatre teacher.
In 1992 he joined Gennadiy Abramov’s Laboratory of Plastic Improvisation, the «Expressive Movement» class at the School of Dramatic Art Theatre.
In 2002 he graduated from the Directing Faculty of GITIS (workshop of Anatoly Vasilyev).
From 2006 to 2017 he worked as a resident director at the School of Dramatic Art Theatre.
From 2008 to 2012 he taught acting at the Moscow Art Theatre School.
Since 2012 he has taught acting at Konstantin Raikin’s Higher School of Performing Arts.
From 2013 to 2017 he was Artistic Director of the Creative Laboratory at the School of Dramatic Art Theatre.
Since 2017 he has been Artistic Director of the KNEBEL Theatre Laboratory.
Since 2022 he has taught the course «Acting for Musical‑Theatre Performers» at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music.
Directing credits:
- 2004 – «Sonety Shekspira» (Shakespeare’s Sonnets), School of Dramatic Art Theatre;
- 2006 – «Schastlivogo plavaniya», divertissement on Goya’s etchings for Anatoly Vasilyev’s production «Don Zhuan myortv» (A. Pushkin, A. Dargomyzhsky);
- 2009 – «Gibraltar», School of Dramatic Art Theatre;
- 2011 – «Mtsyri» by M. Yu. Lermontov, School of Dramatic Art Theatre;
- 2014 – «Antigona» by Sophocles, School of Dramatic Art Theatre;
- 2015 – «V poiskakh Dzhulii», School of Dramatic Art Theatre;
- 2017 – «Sluga dvukh gospod» by Goldoni, School of Dramatic Art Theatre;
- 2018 – «Avantyurnyy roman» by N. Teffi, KNEBEL Laboratory;
- 2019 – «Kto takaya Dzhuliya Lambert?» based on Somerset Maugham’s novel «Theatre», KNEBEL Theatre Laboratory;
- 2019 – «Makbet», Stanislavsky Theatre, Karaganda (Kazakhstan);
- 2020 – «Razgovory v temnote», KNEBEL Theatre Laboratory;
- 2020 – «Poslednyaya lyubov Nasreddina», Amerikyan Theatre, Novorossiysk;
- 2022 – «Portret Doriana Greya», Gogol Theatre;
- 2023 – «Tsar Edip», I. S. Tsey National Theatre, Maykop;
- 2023 – «Romeo i Dzhulietta», Stanislavsky Theatre, Karaganda (Kazakhstan);
- 2024 – «A zori zdes tikhie», I. S. Tsey National Theatre, Maykop;
- 2010 – «Kain», Kirill Serebrennikov’s class, Moscow Art Theatre School;
- 2015 – «Skvernaya noch», Konstantin Raikin’s class, Higher School of Performing Arts;
- 2018 – «Kharms», class of Kama Ginkas and Oleg Topolyansky, Higher School of Performing Arts.
International collaborations:
- Sasha Waltz (Germany);
- Min Tanaka (Japan);
- Davis Freeman (USA);
- Felix Ruckert (Germany);
- Mark Tompkins (France);
- Chris Harring (Austria).
He has taken part in contemporary‑dance festivals including «ImpulsTanz» (Vienna, Austria) and «BucharestEST.west» (Bucharest, Romania).
He received the Grand Prix for Best Actor at the «Belaya vezha» festival for his performance in «Mtsyri».
In 2002 the production «Sutra Kamy» represented Russia at the «Global Dance» festival on the stage of the Schauspielhaus Theatre in Düsseldorf, and was also performed in Tokyo and Helsinki.
