Biography

Ivan Aleksandrovich Vyrypaev (Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Вырыпа́ев; born 3 August, 1974; Irkutsk) is a Russian playwright, screenwriter, film/theater director and actor, who works in Russia and Poland. He is a leading figure in the Russian New Drama movement. He is best known for his plays "Oxygen" ("Kislorod") and "Delhi Dance", which have won numerous awards in both theater and film. Father — Alexander Nikolayevich Vyrypaev, a teacher at Irkutsk Pedagogical College No. 1, was awarded the memorial medal "Patriot of Russia". Mother — Vera Timofeevna Vyrypaeva, had a higher trade education, tragically died. In 1995, Ivan graduated from the Irkutsk theater school, after which he worked as an actor of the Magadan Theater for one season, then for two seasons as an actor of the drama and Comedy Theater in Kamchatka. In 1998, he founded the "Space of Play" theater studio in Irkutsk. In the same year, Ivan became a student of the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, studying in absentia at the department "Director of Drama Theater". In 1999-2001, Vyrypaev taught acting skills at the Irkutsk Theater School, on the course of Vyacheslav Kokorin. In 2005, he created the agency for creative projects in the field of cinema, theater and literature "Kislorod Movement" In 2006, he worked as the art director of the "Praktika Theater". In April 2013, he took up the position of artistic director of the "Praktika Theater". Vyrypaev became famous in Europe as a theater playwright, director, and author of a number of projects. His productions, as well as performances based on his plays, are performed in Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, England, France, and Canada. The play "Dreams "has been translated into English, French, German, Bulgarian, and Polish, the play "Valentine's Day" has been translated into German, and the play "Oxygen" has been translated into a number of foreign languages. He taught at GITIS, at the Moscow Art Theater Studio School, and at the Warsaw Academy of Theater Arts. Works in Moscow, lives in both Poland and Russia.