Bolshoi Theatre • Evgeny Pisarev

Director

Evgeny
Pisarev

Merited Artist of the Russian Federation

Evgeny Pisarev

After graduating of the Moscow Art Theatre College in 1993 (studied under Yuri Eryomin), Evgeny Pisarev joined the company of the Pushkin Drama Theatre, where he played many roles. Worked as an assistant director of Declan Donnellan’s productions (among them wereTwelfth Night and Three Sisters, included in the programme of the International Chekhov Festival).

Since 1996 he has also directed theatre productions at the Pushkin Drama Theatre, the Moscow Palace of Youththe Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, the Bolshoi Theatre, and the Theatre of Nations.

In 2007-10 he worked as an assistant to Oleg Tabakov, artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre.

Artistic director of the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre since June 2010.
Teaches Acting at Moscow Art Theatre College since 1999, head of Acting course since 2013.

Awards

Merited Artist of the Russian Federation

2006

Moscow Prize for Literature and the Arts

2016, 2021

Golden Mask Russian National Theatre Prize

2023

Productions at the Pushkin Drama Theatre

Treasure Island after Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel (1996)
Love and Squalor by J. D. Salinger (1998)
The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol (2001)
Puss in Boots after Charles Perrault
Lend Me a Tenor by Ken Ludwig (2005)
Bullets over Broadway by Woody Allen (2007)
Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon (2010)
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Is He Dead? by Mark Twain (2012)
The Great Magic by Eduardo di Filippo (2012, Theatre Union ‘Hit of the Season’ award)
The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais (2014)
Chamber Theatre. 100 Years (2014, Oleg Tabakov Award)
Oranges & Lemons by Noël Coward (2017)
Shakespeare in Love by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard (2018, Chrystal Turandot Award)
The False Confessions by Pierre de Marivaux (2020)
Madame Rubinstein by John Misto (2022)
The Crimson Island by Mikhail Bulgakov (2022)
Zoyka's apartment by Mikhail Bulgakov (2023).

At the Moscow Art Theatre

Leading Ladies by Ken Ludwig (2006)
The Humpbacked Little Horse by the Presnyakov Brothers (2008, Golden Mask Award as the best operetta and the Chrystal Turandot Award as the best production)
The Pickwick Club after Charles Dickens (2009)
These Ghosts by Eduardo di Filippo (2010)

At the Oleg Tabakov Theatre

Kynaston after Jeffrey Hatcher (2017, Theatre Union ‘Hit of the Season’ award)

At the Theatre of Nations

Cabaret musical (2022, Golden Mask Award as the best director’s work)

At the Bolshoi Theatre

Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart (conductor William Lacey, 2015)
Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini (conductor Pier Giorgio Morandi, 2018)
Mazeppa by Tchaikovsky (conductor Tugan Sokhiev, 2021)
Adriana Lecouvreur by Cilea (conductor Artem Abashev, 2023)

At the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre

L’italiana in Algeri by Rossini (2013)

Other works in music theatre

The Sound of Music by Rogers and Hammerstein (Stage Entertainment, 2011)
Chess by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (MDM Palace, Moscow 2020)

General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — insurance company «Ingosstrakh»

Privileged sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre — TBank

Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — GUM