Kirill Serebrennikov

Kirill Serebrennikov
Kirill Serebrennikov at the Venice Film Festival
Born	(1969-09-07)7 September 1969 Rostov-on-Don, USSR
Nationality	Russian
Occupation	Stage and film director
Years active	Since 1994

Kirill Semyonovich Serebrennikov (Russian: Кирилл Семёнович Серебренников, born September 7, 1969^[1]) is a Russian stage and film director, and theatre designer. Since 2012, he has been the artistic director of the Gogol Center in Moscow.

Career

Serebrenikov was born to a Jewish father and a Ukrainian mother. His father was a surgeon, while his mother was a Russian teacher.^[2] Having graduated from Rostov State University with majors in physics in 1992. Serebrennikov had no formal theatre education prior to his stage director debut in 1994.^[3] He went on directing music videos and commercials.^[1]

In 2001, he staged his first production in Moscow. Serebrennikov has staged drama productions in Moscow Chekhov Theatre, Latvian National Theatre, Theatre of Nations. He has been active in opera staging productions for the Mariinsky Theatre, and the Bolshoi Theatre in Russia,^[4] where he has also been a stage director and a designer for a ballet,^[5] Komische Oper Berlin and Stuttgart Opera in Germany.^[6]

Serebrennikov is one of the artistic directors of Territory Festival in Moscow. Since 2008 he is a professor of the Moscow Art Theatre School, where he has a class of actors and directors.^[3] His productions have been presented at the Wiener Festwochen,^[7] and the Avignon Theatre Festival.^[8] His films have been screened at Cannes Film Festival,^[9] Locarno Film Festival, Rome Film Festival, and the Warsaw International Film Festival where his film Yuri's Day received the Grand Prix.^[10]

In 2012, he has been appointed artistic director of The Gogol Center.^[11] In 2017, Mr. Serebrennikov's apartment, and the Gogol Center facilities, were raided by the law enforcement agencies in connection with the alleged embezzlment at the Seventh Studio, non-profit organization established by Mr. Serebrennikov^[12]. While no charges against Mr. Serebrennikov have been brought up, some of Russia's most prominent cultural figures saw a publicized raid in his apartment as a political gesture, discouraging Mr. Serebrennikov and others from criticizing the government^[13]. Vladimir Urin, and Yevgeny Mironov, among others, have expressed their support to Mr. Serebrennikov in a letter passed on to Vladimir Putin in a public function^[14].

Filmography

Films

• Undressed (1998)
• Ragin (2004)
• Playing the Victim (2006)^[15]
• Yuri's Day (2008)
• Crush : 5 Love Stories (2009)
• Betrayal (2012)
• The Student (2016)^[16]

Television

• Rostov-Papa (2001), 10 episodes
• The Murderer’s Diary (2002), 12 episodes
• Bed Stories (2003)

Awards

• The Europe Prize New Theatrical Realities sponsored by European Commission (2017)^[17]

References