Oleg Liptsin

Who is Oleg Liptsin?

Oleg Liptsin, is a theatre director and professor of drama.

Liptsin studied theater at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, GITIS in Moscow with Anatoly Vasiliev and Mikhail Butkevich. He worked as an actor and assistant director at the renowned Moscow State Theatre "School of Dramatic Arts" Théâtre de l'Europe under artistic direction of Anatoly Vasiliev. For 3 years Liptsin performed in the worldwide production of Six Characters in Search of an Author by Pirandello.

In 1989 Oleg Liptsin established one of the first independent theatre ensembles in Ukraine, TheaterClub/Kiev, which became a leading experimental and avant-garde theatre laboratory in the country. TheaterClub/Kiev has created its own acting method based on the Russian improvisational tradition developed by Michael Chekhov and Evgeny Vakhtangov and revised in our times by Mikhail Butkevich. While practicing and exploring modern acting techniques, TheaterClub/Kiev produced more than 20 award-winning plays and experimental theatre projects, presented not only in Ukraine but also in Austria, Poland, Canada, Russia, USA and Spain. These productions, directed by Liptsin, included Antigone by Sophocles, Me by Khviloviy, Ulysses by James Joyce, The Old Woman by Gogol and Daniil Kharms, were presented at numerous international festivals.