NIKOLAI PINIGIN

He was born on August 6, 1957 in the city of Izyum (Ukraine).

In 1979, he graduated from the director's department of the Belarusian Academy of Arts.

From 1979 to 1980 he worked as a director on Belarusian TV, where he staged a TV play "Nocturnal Stagecoach" based on the prose of K.Paustovsky (1979). From 1980 to 1982 he worked in the Russian theater named after M. Gorky in Minsk. From 1980 to 1982 he worked in the Russian theatre named after M.Gorky in Minsk, where as a director he staged plays: "The Tale of Stray Dogs" by K.Serigenko (1980), "Lawlessness" by A.Chekhov (1981), "Announcement in the Evening Newspaper" by E.Popova (1981), etc.

In 1985 he became a director of the National Academic Theater of Ya. In 1985 he became the director of the Y. Kupala National Academic Theater, where he staged G. Ibsen's "Woman from the Sea" (1984), D. Kovacevic's "There and There" (1985), C. Higgins' "Harold and Maude" (1986) and J.-K. Kariyer's "The Lady from the Sea" (1986). K. Career (1986), Children of the Sun by M. Gorky (1987), The Dragon by E. Schwartz (1989), The Emigrants by S. Mrozek (1989), Tuteishya by J. Kupala (1990), The Hen by N. Kolyada (1992) and many others.

From 1985-1987 she was a teacher at the department of "The Master's Art" of the Moscow State Pedagogical University. - From 1985-1987, he was a teacher at the department of "Acting and directing" at the Belarusian Academy of Arts.

Trained as a director at the Maly Theater in Moscow (1982-1984), at the Courant D'Est in Paris (France, 1995).

From 1998 to 2009 he was a director of the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater.

His directing preferences are extremely diverse. His creative range includes plays from various eras and genres, from classical to contemporary, from psychological drama to plays of absurdity. Being a very popular director, Pinigin tries and always succeeds in different kinds of theater arts, be it drama, musical theater ("The Lady's Visit" by S. Kortes, an opera based on a play by F. Dürrenmatt. It varies from dramatic theatre to musical theatre, from opera based on F. Dürrenmatt's play (Bolshoi Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Minsk, 1995) to Boris Godunov by A. Pushkin with libretto by M. Mussorgsky (National Academic Opera Theatre of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, 2000) to puppet theater (Striptease by S. Mrozhek, Puppet Theatre, Grodno, 1994).

Since 2009 has been the artistic director of the Yanka Kupala National Academic Theatre.

THEATRICAL WORKS

Director of the productions:

"The Child from Bethlehem" (Theatre-studio of cinema actor, Minsk, 1993),

"Idyllia" by V. Dunin-Martsinkevich (Ya. Kupala National Theatre, Minsk, 1993),

"The Bald Singer by E. Ionesco (Yanka Kupala National Theatre, 1996),

"The Trapped Horse" by F. Sagan, (Theatre of the Russian Army, Moscow, 1995),

"The Makropoulos Affair by K. Čapek (Ya. Kolos Academic Theatre, Vitebsk, 1996),

"The Costumer by R. Harwood (Y. Kupala National Theatre, Minsk, 1997),

"The Whims of Marianne by A. Musset (Tovstonogov Drama Theatre, St. Petersburg, 1997),

"ART" by J. Reza (Maly Theatre, Minsk, 1998),

"Poor Liza" by N. Karamzin (Virtuosi Scena Entreprise, Minsk, 1999),

"Shoes on a Thick Shoe" by P. Gladilin (Alfa Radio Production Centre, Minsk, 1999),

"A Touch" by P. Marber (Nikolo Theatre, Alfa Radio, Minsk, 2000),

"Dinner with a Jerk" by F. Weber (Nikolo Theatre, Alfa Radio, Minsk, 2002),

"Boulevard of Crime" by E.-E. Schmidt (Vakhtangov Theatre, Moscow, 2003),

"Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (master class, Clermont-Férin, France, 2003), etc.

The Tovstonogov Drama Theatre:

"Lies on Long Legs" by E. De Filippo (2000),

Alexander Ostrovsky's "Talents and Fans" (2001),

"The Costumer" by R. Harwood (2002),

P. Gladilin's "The Moth" (2004),

"Catherine Ivanovna by L.N. Andreev (2004),

"R. Harwood's Quartet (2005),

"The Emigrants by S. Mrozek.

PRIZES AND AWARDS

Winner of the State Prize of the Republic of Belarus (for the performance "Tuteishya" by Y. Kupala, 1992),

He was acknowledged as "Man of the Year of Belarus" in nomination "Stage" (1994),

Winner of the BSTD prize named after E.Mirovich in the nomination "For Best Directing" (performance "Idyllia" by V.Dunin-Martsinkevich),

Diploma winner of international festivals in Cracow (Poland), Moscow (Russia), Kharkov (Ukraine), Bratislava (Slovakia), Tallinn (Estonia), Vilnius (Lithuania).