Director of
DAS VERSCHWINDEN DES JOSEF MENGELE
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, Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris).
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.
Kirill Serebrennikov has worked extensively in film and television. 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.