Biography
Kirill Semyonovich Serebrennikov (Russian: Кирилл Семёнович Серебренников; born 7 September 1969; Rostov-on-Don) is a Russian stage and film director and theatre designer. Since 2012, he has been the artistic director of the Gogol Center in Moscow. He has been described as one of Russia's leading theatre directors. Serebrennikov was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR to a Jewish father and a Ukrainian mother. Having graduated from Rostov State University with majors in physics in 1992. 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 staged his first production in Moscow. 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. 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…
Directed
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Leto (2018) — Director
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The Student (2016) — Director
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Petrov's Flu (2021) — Director
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Limonov: The Ballad (2024) — Director
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Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022) — Director
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Playing the Victim (2006) — Director
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The Disappearance of Josef Mengele (2025) — Director
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Betrayal (2012) — Director
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Yuri's Day (2008) — Director
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Crush (2009) — Director
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Ragin (2004) — Director
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After Leto (2018) — Director
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Bed Stories (2003) — Director
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Forest (2006) — Director
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Tabakov. A Reflexion (2010) — Director
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Some Explicit Polaroids (2005) — Director
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Gogol Online: Stalin's Funeral (2016) — Director
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Undressed (1998) — Director
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Alexander Sokurov. Temptation (2012) — Director
- Etude (2016) — Director
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Phonograph (2016) — Director
- Shigi-Jigi, or Everything Will Be Fine (1993) — Director
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Out of the Box (2021) — Director
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Replacing Dogs with Mixing (1993) — Director
- Secrets of the Thunderstorm (1998) — Director
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Gentlemen Golovlevs (2006) — Director
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The Black Monk (2022) — Director
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The Pillow Man (2007) — Director
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The Philistines (2007) — Director
- The Threepenny Opera (2009) — Director
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Don Carlo (2024) — Director
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Пластилин (2003) — Director
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Naked Pioneer (2005) — Director
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Terrorism (2002) — Director
- After — Director
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Boris Godunov (2025) — Director
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Gogol Online: An Ordinary Story (2016) — Director
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The Marksman (2022) — Director
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Nureyev - A ballet by Kirill Serebrennikov and Yuri Possokhov (2026) — Director
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Man Without a Name (2021) — Director
Also appeared in
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Hardcore Henry (2015) — Tank Driver #1
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Great Performances (1971) — Self
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Room 999 (2023) — Self
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7 (2019) — himself
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Protest Day (2012)
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The School for Scandal (2002)
- aspekte (1965) — Self
- .RU (2018) — Self (archive footage)
- Theatre Affair (2018) — himself
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Fade:In:Out (2025) — Himself
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What Beat You Nothing (2021) — Self
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Stanislavski: Lust for Life (2021) — Self
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Das Haus der guten Geister (2020)
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I Am Katya Golubeva (2016)
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Outside the System (2013)
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Stage — Rostov (2021) — self
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Kirill Serebrennikov: The Art And The Power In Russia (2019)
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Rostov-Father (2001) — Turk