Born in 1969 in Russia, Rostov-on-Don. Russian theater, television and film director, he is the Artistic Director of the Gogol Center since 2012. He staged his first play when he was still a student. In 1992, he graduated from Rostov State University physics department with honors. In 2008, he formed an experimental actor-director class at the Moscow Art Theatre School. In 2012, the class becomes the Studio Seven, which is now a Gogol Center full-time resident. From 2011 to 2014, Kirill was the Artistic Director of the Platform project at the Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art and he currently lives in Moscow. In 2015, the Gogol Center represented at the Avignon Festival the play The Idiots staged by Kirill Serebrennikov. Inspired by the eponymous Lars Von Trier. This year he will present Dead Souls inspired by the novel Nikolaï Gogol.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
