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) is a Russian stage and film director, and theatre designer. Since 2012, he is the artistic director of The Gogol Center in Moscow.

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

In 2001, he has staged his first production in Moscow. Kirill 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, where he has also been a stage director and a designer for a ballet,Komische Oper Berlin and Stuttgart Opera in Germany.

Kirill 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. His productions were presented in Wiener Festwochen, and Avignon Theatre Festival. His films were screened at Cannes Film Festival,Locarno Film Festival, Rome Film Festival, and the Warsaw International Film Festival where his film Yuri's Day received the Grand Prix.