I was born in Kazakhstan in 1993 and I didn’t always dream of theater. From 2007 to 2021, I studied acting and directing in Russia (NGTI, RGISI, BTK). Since 2022, I live in Almaty, and now I collaborate with the German theater Das Letzte Kleinod. I create plays in different countries, taking into account the local context. My specialization is puppet theater, object theater and modern theater for children and families. I am inspired by contemporary European literature for children and teenagers.
Productions / Directing:
Bury Me Behind the Baseboard (Bolshoi Puppet Theater, St. Petersburg) 18+
The Ape Star by Frida Nilsson (Bolshoi Puppet Theater, St. Petersburg) 6+
Aiaccio by Biagio Russo (tipa theater) 6+
Jagger, Jagger by Frida Nilsson (Nyagonsky Theatre for Young Spectators) 6+
Nikita looking for the sea (The Arkhangelsk Regional Youth Theatre) 6+
Beware of the Dog! (Total Theatre, Almaty) 12+ 🇰🇿
Plaster by Anna Woltz (Kaliningrad Regional Drama Theater) 12+
Holiday recipe (Kaliningrad Regional Drama Theater) 6+
Going in twos (Khanty-Mansiysk Puppet Theater) 3+
Typisch bär by Hubert Schirneck (Puppet Theater "Brodyachaya sobachka”) 5+
Cinderella (Puppet Theater "Brodyachaya sobachka”) 4+
Wee Little Havroshechka (Moscow Regional Puppet Theater) 6+
Commedia dell'arte (Okhta-Lab, Bolshoi Puppet Theatre, Museum + Theater) 14+
Suitcase for the sea (Live puppet theater "2+ku”) 3+
Lika and ray (Live puppet theater "2+ku”, zoom performance) 3+
DOTHEATRE (The New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater)
Online (Barnaul Puppet Theater "Skazka”) 12+
Second director:
- Kasztanka, director of puppet work (theatre at Narva Gate), directed by Rinat Kijakov, premiere September 26, 2020.
- The Old Man and the Sea, puppet work director (Baltic House Theatre), directed by Rinat Kijakov, premieres 28 November 2020.
- Sugar Kid, puppet director (New Youth Nizhny Tagil Theatre), directed by Rinat Kiyakov, premiere 10 October 2022
Public reading director:
- "Right on the Nerves" (reading, just plays) by playwright Konstantin Bidanok, St Petersburg, April 2017
- Bottomless Lake (reading, Harlequin play festival) [VK], playwright Maria Zavadskaya, Zazerkalye Theatre, St Petersburg, 10 September 2020. Reading press: REMARK FOR HARLEQUIN
- Glutton Boy (reading, short play festival Stories, theatre Saturday) [teaser], playwright Elena Shchetininva, St Petersburg, 11 - 12 January 2021
- "Revolution" (reading, First Reading programme as part of the Five Evenings Festival Volodinsky Festival, Theatre on Liteiny), playwright Olzhas Zhanaidarov, St Petersburg, 8 February 2022. Reading press: HEAD AS ORACLE, SPACE AS SALVATION, SWORD AS WEAPON
- "Naratu, Sanzhik and the Seven Magic Tiles" (reading, festival of contemporary Kazakh drama "Drama.KZ"), playwright Almira Ismailova, Kazakhstan, Almaty, 24 October 2022.
Director of sketches:
- The Day I Met a Whale, BTK-LAB, sketch director, St Petersburg, 20-31 August 2018
- Adelaide. Winged Kangaroo, KOT Lab, sketch director, Krasnoyarsk, 11-18 March 2019
- The Snow Maiden (Zheleznogorsk Puppet Theatre "Golden Key", laboratory Theatre of Nations), sketch director, Zheleznogorsk, March 8-15, 2020
- Kra-Kra (Ozersk puppet theatre "Golden Cockerel", laboratory Theatre of Nations), sketch director, Ozersk, 14-22 February 2022
Video works:
- From 2012-2019 he worked as a puppeteer (character Gosha Kvakin) in the TV educational programme for children "Tele-Termok". The programme was broadcast across the Siberian Federal District.
- Zoom-performances (personal online performances for children at covid time) "The most important thing", "Where's mum?", "The riddle of the black hole".
- 16 May 2020. - The "BTK.Generathion" mockup festival. Directed by video mock-up "Mama Courage" [recording]
- 24 May 2020. - Premiere of the covid film "The Procession" based on the text of the same name by I.Brodsky, director of the excerpt "Lucky Romance" (BTK) [entry]
- 10 December 2020. - director of the video reading "Waiting", playwright Elena Shchetinina, Subbota Theatre, St Petersburg [VK] [YouTube]
International festivals
- 22-24 September 2011. - International innovation forum Interra, Novosibirsk, Russia, a participant in the master class of street puppeteer Pavel Vangeli (Prague, Czech Republic).
- December 2011. - Attended master classes and lectures by Marek Waskel, professor at the Alexander Zelverowicz Theatre Academy (remote puppet theatre department, Białystok).
- June 19-24th, 2012 - The International Festival of Puppetry Schools, Bialystok, Poland, as an artist representing Novosibirsk State Theatre Institute.
- 11-12 May 2013. - Premiere of the performance "Novosibirsk Transfer" within the Year of Germany in Russia, dance performance by Goethe Institute, directed by Samir Akika (Germany), participated as an artist-dancer, Novosibirsk, Russia
- 6-7 September 2013. - V International Innovation Forum Interra, actor and director of street performance "Petrushka" Novosibirsk, Russia
- 1 December 2013. - II International festival of theatrical schools named after Tokpanov. Tokpanov, actor in the play "People and Puppets", 1st place of the Festival, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
- June 2-7, 2014. - III International theatre-educational festival-forum "Nauruz" Kazan, Russia:
Attended workshops by Svetlana Burova, head of the Blue Bird Theatre Studio (France)
Assistant teacher in the master classes of Elmira Rostislavovna Kurilenko, Ph.
- 23-29 October 2014. - International Festival of Puppet Theatres "Ark", participated as an artist in the off-program, performance "Black Cube", Petrushka, Tomsk, Russia
- 3-7 November 2017. - IV International Festival "BTK-FEST: Actual Puppet Theatre. Circus", artist and director of the performance "Fortunatus. Flea Circus", St. Petersburg, Russia
- 8-13 June 2018. - International Festival of Theatre Schools Istropolitana Project. Artist in the play "Minotaurum", Festival Grand Prix, Bratislava, Slovakia
- November 2-6, 2018. - V International Festival BTK-FEST: Actual Puppet Theatre. microMACRO", director of micro performance "Irreversible Irreversibility", St Petersburg, Russia
- 15-30 July 2019. - V International Summer Arts Festival "The Access Point" St. Petersburg, Russia:
Laboratory participant: sketch artist for The School Simulator, (directed by Peter Kurkin) and A Dream in Five Books. The Book of Separation (directed by Daria Krasnoyarova)
Student of the educational program - Bodil Alling (Denmark), lectures: Arnold Aronson(USA), J.Ed. Araiza (USA), Gian Maria Tosatti (Italy), Bodil Alling (Denmark), Stefano Ricci and Gianni Forte (Italy), Dries Verhoeven, Marina Davydova. He has received a certificate of advanced training in Modern Theatrical Methodology for a total of 82 training hours.
- 2-4 November 2019. - VI International Festival "BTK-fest: Actual Puppet Theatre. Playing Classics", director and actor of excerpts of the play "Seagulls"
- May 29 - July 29, 2020. - VI International Summer Arts Festival "The Access Point", St. Petersburg, Russia:
Participant in the festival's spontaneous program - artist in the online play "Happy Birthday!", directed by Ksenia Peszczyk, premieres 15, 28 April 2020
Festival testimonial main program
- 2-5 April 2021. - III International Festival of Chamber and Mono-Productions "He.She.They". Director of the play "Bury Me behind the Baseboard", 1st place of the festival, 2021, Ekaterinburg, Russia
- July 1-7, 2021 - International Festival of Puppet Theatres, BPT, Director of the performance "Ajaccio. The Story of a Clown", St.Petersburg, Russia.
- 11-16 September 2021. - XVIII International Festival of Puppet Theatres "Ryazan Settlements 2021", director of the performance "Bury Me behind the Baseboard", Ryazan, Russia
- 16-22 September 2021. - XI International S.V. Obraztsov Puppet Theatre Festival 2021, actor in 'Amundsen Pole', Moscow, Russia
- 20-24 May 2022. - XIII International Festival of Puppet Theatres "Ant-Man 2022", director of the play "Bury Me behind the Baseboard", Ivanovo, Russia
- September 21-25, 2022 - III International Festival of Puppet Art "Lyalki nad Nyomanam", director of the play "Kroshechka-Kavroshechka", Grodno, Belarus
Acting:
- Ecclesiastes (BTK)
- Amundsen Pole (BTK) 🏆
- Letov. Fool (BTK)
- Tango that fell in the sky (BTK)
- Minotaurum (BTK)
- Winter when I grew up (BTK)
- Life of Insects (BTK)
- The Outsider (BTK)
- Ajbolit (BTK)
- Bluebird (BTK)
- Seagulls (BTK)
- SINGLE. Alone on the moon (Kind of a theatre)
- The Snow Maiden (Old House) 🏆
- Happy Birthday (Access Point)
- School simulator (Access point) 🏆
- The Snow Queen (Theatre+Museum)
Other projects:
- 01-20 August 2019. - Director-consultant at the 2+ku Theatre Art-Residence, which was created in memory of Master V. Zakharov. Restored Zakharov's productions with his pupils, and created new productions with puppets of Zakharov's system, Tomsk.
- February 2020. - Curator of the Experimental Puppet Theatre Laboratory at the Sinyaya Tsaplya Cultural Experimental Centre, Novosibirsk.
- November 22, 2021. - Director of the closing ceremony of the 4th Great Festival for Children, Guberniy Theatre, Moscow
- June 18-24, 2022 - Laboratory of Theatre of Nations, within the framework of "Territory of Culture of Rosatom", staging the sketch "Amazing Mr. Fox", directed by Maxim Morozov in Novouralsk Puppet Theatre, Novouralsk
Education and experience:
- 2015 - graduated from NSTI majoring in puppet theatre (Workshop of E.R. Kurilenko)
- 2014 - 2016 - teacher of acting and stage movement at NSTI
- 2015 - 2016 - drama actor at Novosibirsk State Drama Theatre "Old House"
- 2021 - graduated from RGISI (SPbGATI) as a puppet theatre director (Workshop of R. R. Kudashov, course at Bolshoi Puppet Theatre)
Press about me:
- The printed edition of the St.-Petersburg Theatre Journal No 3(109) 2022. Article "Molrezhi i molredy". Interview by Roman Boklanov, RGISI, R.R. Kudashov's Workshop, Issue 2021 (about censorship, state pressure on the artist, and why theatre is necessary) [PDF]
Contacts:
Producer for English-speaking countries Daniil Petrov
Daniil Petrov:
email: octrow@gmail.com
Telegram: @trauor
Roman Boklanov:
Instagram: @boklanovroman
Facebook: Roman Boklanov
Telegram: @roman7593
email: boklanov.roman@mail.ru