Yury Butusov
Graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Theatre Art in 1996 where he studied directing in the class of Irina Malochevskaya.
Productions:
Nikolai Gogol’s THE WEDDING and Feodor Dostoyevsky’s NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND at the St. Petersburg Academy of Theatre Art; Georg Buchner’s WOZZECK; Samuel Beckett`s WAITING FOR GODOT; Albert Camus’s CALIGULA; Vladimir Mayakovski’s THE BUG; Wiesław Myśliwski`s THE THIEF; Alexander Vampilov’s ELDEST SON; WE ARE ALL BEATIFUL PEOPLE based on Ivan Turgenev`s A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY; MACBETH. THE MOVIE based on William Shakespeare; BRECHT CABARE based on Bertolt Brecht; LIEBE. SCHILLER based on Schiller`s THE ROBBERS at the Lensoviet Theatre; Harold Pinter’s THE CARETAKER at the Theatre on Liteiny; Sukhovo-Kobylin’s TARELKIN’S DEATH at the Theatron-N; Eugene Ionesco’s MACBETH; Shakespeare’s RICHARD III, KING LEAR, OTHELLO; Chekhov`s THE SEAGULL at the Satiricon Theatre; SUNDAY. SUPER by Vladimir and Oleg Presnyakovs at the Tabakov’s Theatre; Shakespeare’s HAMLET; Chekhov`s IVANOV at the Moscow Art Theatre; MAN=MAN based on Bertolt Brecht`s MAN EQUALS MAN at the Aleksandrinsky Theatre; Shakespeare`s MEASURE FOR MEASURE at the Vakhtangov Theatre; Brecht`s THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAN at the Pushkin Theatre; Dostoyvsky`s CRIME AND PUNISHMENT and Shakespeare’s ROMEO AND JULIET at the Halogaland Theatre, Norway; Buchner’s WOZZECK and Chekhov`s THE SEAGULL at the National Theatre of Seoul, Korea; Leonid Andreev`s SHAVE AND A HAIRCUT at the Theatre in Wybrzeze, Poland; Alexander Vampilov’s DUCK HUNTING at the Ivan Vazov Theatre, Bulgaria.
Yury Butusov taught at the Russian Academy of Theatre Art and St. Petersburg Academy of Theatre Art.
Since 2011 has been the chief director at the Lensoviet Theatre, St. Petersburg.
Is a nominee and winner of a number of Golden Mask Awards.