Ivan Vyrypaev

Father - Aleksandr Nikolayevich Vyrypaev, teacher of the Irkutsk Pedagogical College No. 1, was awarded the Patriot of Russia commemorative medal. Mother - Vera Timofeyevna Vyrypaeva, had higher trade education, died tragically.

In 1995, Ivan graduated from the Irkutsk Theater School, after graduation he worked for one season as an actor in the Magadan Theater, then for two seasons as an actor in the Drama and Comedy Theater in Kamchatka.

In 1998, founded the theater-studio "Space of the Game" in Irkutsk. In the same year, Ivan became a student at the Higher Theater School named after Shchukin, studying at the departments of "Drama Theater Director".

In 1999–2001, Vyrypaev taught acting skills at the Irkutsk Theater School, on the course of Vyacheslav Kokorin.

In 2005, he created the Kislorod Movement agency for creative projects in the field of cinema, theater and literature.

In 2006, he worked as the art director of the Praktika Theatre.

In April 2013, he assumed the position of artistic director of the Praktika Theatre. In May 2016, he left this position.

Since 2020, he has been the general producer of the Okko Theater bureau, which is busy producing and filming performances for shows on the Okko platform. In the spring of 2021, he left this position.

Vyrypaev gained fame in Europe primarily as a theatrical playwright. By 2019, his plays have already been staged in more than 250 theaters around the world. So Vyrypaev entered the top 10 most prominent playwrights in the world. He is also known as a film director, his film Euphoria got into the main competition of the Venice Film Festival and received the award of the "youth jury" "small golden lion" for the best film. He taught at GITIS, at the Moscow Art Theater School, the Warsaw Academy of Theater Arts.

In May 2022 he became a Polish citizen[3] while also remaining a citizen of Russia.[4]

On 17 May 2023 the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested Vyrypaev in absentia in connection on the charges of "spreading fake news" about the Russian army.[5]

• First wife - actress Svetlana Ivanova-Sergeyeva. Son Gennady (born 1994).
• Second wife (2003-2007) - actress Polina Agureeva. Son Peter (b. October 26, 2004).
• The third wife is the Polish actress Karolina Gruszka. Daughter (b. 2012).

• 2020 — UFO
• 2020 — Entertainment
• 2021 — World of beautiful butterflies

• Yu (original title, Irkutsk)
• Dreams (Irkutsk, Moscow)
• Macbeth (Irkutsk)
• The City Where I Am (Irkutsk)
• To Explain (Moscow Theatre School of Dramatic Art)
• Delhi Dance (National Theatre, Warsaw)
• July (National Theatre, Warsaw)
• Comedy (Praktika Theatre)
• Illusions (Praktika Theatre)
• Illusions (Stary Teatr, Kraków)
• Unbearably long embraces (Praktika Theatre)
• Illusions (Stary Teatr, Kraków)
• Marriage (Studio Theatre, Warsaw)
• Interview S-FBP 4408 (Bolshaya Dmitrovka, Moscow)
• Illusiones (El Pavón Teatro Kamikaze, Madrid). Directed by Miguel del Arco with Marta Etura, Daniel Grao, Alejandro Jato and Verónica Ronda.
• Boris Godunov (Bolshoi Theatre, Poznan)
• Diary of Zherebtsova Polina (Museum of the Uprising, Warsaw)
• Uncle Vanya (Polish Theater named after Arnold Shifman, Warsaw)
• 2019 - Disquet (Bolshoi Drama Theater named after G. A. Tovstonogov, Saint Petersburg)
• 2021 - 1.8 M (New Theatre, Warsaw)

• 1999 — Dreams
• 2000 — The City Where I Am
• 2001 — Valentine's Day
• 2001 — Karaoke box
• 2002 — Oxygen
• 2004 — Being No.2
• 2006 — July
• 2008 — To Explain
• 2010 — Delhi Dance
• 2010 — Comedy
• 2011 — Illusions
• 2011 — DREAMWORKS
• 2012 — Summer bees sting in November, too
• 2012 — Drunks
• 2012 — UFO
• 2013 — Shugar
• 2014 — What I learned from the snake
• 2014 — Unbearably long embraces
• 2015 — Line of the sun
• 2016 — Interview S-FBP 4408
• 2017 — Iranian Conference
• 2018 — Nancy
• 2019 — Disquiet
• 2020 — Entertainment
• 2021 — Research Study. New Constructive Ethics
• 2021 — World of beautiful butterflies

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