about

He makes shows for children, teenagers, and families — physical, hand-made, quiet-then-loud. His work has been seen in Russia, Kazakhstan, Germany, Spain, Austria, Finland, and Uzbekistan. His artistic language was shaped by the Saint Petersburg school of puppet theatre: precise form, deliberate gesture, the material object as primary carrier of meaning. Each production attempts a conversation with children about the things that are hardest to talk about. 30+ staged productions. 20+ awards at Russian and international festivals.

STAGED IN

ST. PETERSBURG · MOSCOW · ALMATY · BREMEN · VIENNA · BERLIN · TASHKENT · ALICANTE · LONDON · EDINBURGH · LISBON · PORTO · LUXEMBOURG

chronology

1993Born in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan

2015Graduates from the Novosibirsk Theatre Institute, Elmira Kurilenko's class

2015Actor at the Old House theatre, Novosibirsk

2016Enters RGISI under Ruslan Kudashov, a class at the Bolshoi Puppet Theatre

2017The Old House's Snegurochka, with him in the cast, wins a Golden Mask

2019Directing consultant at the 2+Ku theatre art residency, Tomsk

2021Graduates from RGISI as a puppet theatre director

2021Co-founds Tipa Teatr with producer Elizaveta Ekimova

2021The Ape Star is shown in the Golden Mask Children's Weekend

2022Proryv Prize for young theatre artists: Best Director, for The Ape Star

2023First productions outside Russia: Almaty, Vienna, Bremerhaven, Alicante

2025The Bold Ones in Bremen, a documentary production with teenagers

2026Premieres in Helsinki and Tashkent

lineage

Ruslan Kudashov

MasterRGISI, class at the Bolshoi Puppet Theatre, 2016–2021

“His school is in me, but I am looking for my own way”

Elmira Kurilenko

First masterNovosibirsk Theatre Institute, class of 2015

Introduced him to puppet theatre

Dmitry Krymov, Yana Tumina

Inspiration

“I try to be inspired, but not to copy”

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