Kirill
Serebrennikov
Born in 1969. Graduated from Rostov University.
Directed numerous productions at such drama theaters as the Moscow Art Theater, the Pushkin Theater, the Sovremennik Theater, the National Theater of Latvia, the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Thalia Theater Hamburg.
Staged different operas at the Mariinsky Theater, the Bolshoi Theater, The Komische Oper Berlin, The Staatsoper Stuttgart, The Zurich Opera House, The Staatsoper Hamburg, The Vienna State Opera, The Bavarian State Opera, The Dutch National Opera, The Opéra National de Paris.
As a director, set designer and author of the libretto, he created two ballet productions - “ A Hero of Our Time” (2015) and “Nureyev” (2018) - in the Bolshoi Theater in Russia.
For several years in a row, his productions were invited to the international Theater Festival in Avignon, France. In 2019, he was invited by the Festival to create an original production - “Outside” - which the French critics named the best foreign performance of the year. In 2022, a special festival version of his production “The Black Monk”, that premiered earlier that year in the Thalia Theater, opened the Avignon Festival at the Palais des Papes.
Kirill Serebrennikov has worked extensively in film and television. Among his works are: “Playing the Victim”, “Bed scenes”, “Yuriyev day”, “Short circuit” (or “Shrimp's kiss”), “Betrayal”, “The student”, “Leto”, “After ‘Leto’” (“After ‘Summer’”), “Petrov’s Flu”, “Tchaikovsky's Wife”, “Limonov: The Ballad”.
Has been one of the artistic directors of the festival-school The Territory from 2006 to 2015.
He was the founder and the artistic director of the project „Platform“ from 2011 to 2014.
In 2012, together with the graduates of his directing and acting class from the Moscow Art Theater School, he found the company The Seventh Studio. It then became the main team of the Gogol Center, with Kirill Serebrennikov as its artistic director from 2012 to 2021.
For his accomplishments, he has received numerous awards, including the Stanislavsky award (2005), the Golden Mask award, the Tefi (2005), the Benois de la Danse (for the ballet „Nureyev“, 2018), the main prize of the Rome festival (for the film „Playing the Victim“, 2006), the Locarno festival (for the film „Yuriyev day“, 2008). His works have been selected to the Venice Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, The Europe Prize New Theatrical Realities, and many others.
In August 2018, Kirill Serebrennikov was named the commander of the French Order of Arts and Letters.
In 2023, he founded his own theater company KIRILL & FRIENDS, based in Berlin.