Timofei Kuliabin in dialogue with Octavian Saiu

Timofei Kuliabin is a Russian theatre and opera director. Born in 1984, he graduated from the Russian Theatre Academy in Moscow (GITIS) in 2007. From 2007 he worked at the Novosibirsk Academic Theatre “Red Torch”, in 2015 he took charge of this theatre, becoming the youngest chief director in Russia at that time. He headed the “Red Torch” Theatre until February 2022 and carried out several productions during that time, presenting a daring reinterpretation of the classical texts. At the same time, he has made several noticeable productions in other theatres in Russia, including: Electra (2013), Ivanov (2016), The Broken Jug (2020) at the Theatre of Nations (Moscow). As a freelance director he staged also various plays in Europe: livejournal (Russian Theatre, Riga, 2007), Nora (A Doll's House) (Schauspielhaus Zürich, 2019), Miss Julie (Deutsches Theater, Berlin, 2020, 2022), Macbeth (Schauspiel Frankfurt, 2023) and Fear and Misery in the Third Empire (Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe, 2024). In 2022 he staged In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields by B.-M. Koltes for two performers, Ingeborga Dapkunaite and John Malkovich, at Riga's Dailes Theatre.
In July 2024, his production of Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides opened the theatre festival at the ancient Amphitheatre of Epidaurus (Greece) – the first time in the festival's history that the opening performance was directed by a non-Greek director.
Due to his explicitly anti-war position, Timofei Kuliabin was forced to resign as the chief director of the theatre “Red Torch” in February 2022, his planned productions in Russia for the coming years have been cancelled. He is currently living and working in Europe.

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25 June, 12:00

Forumul Democrat al Germanilor (Sala Oglinzilor)   
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