- Oleg Liptsin
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Oleg Liptsin (born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1960), 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.
Liptsin began directing and teaching in Europe, and other parts of the world, in the early 90s. In 1991 he was granted a short-term residence in Schaubühne (West Berlin) while Luc Bondy was directing Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. He directed the experimental theatre/installation project Kusma based on Andrei Platonov in the Frames of Art festival in Upper Austria. After teaching at the Konrad Wolf Film and TV Institute in Potsdam/Babelsberg, Germany in 1993-94, he directed a production based on Joyce's Ulysses for International Festival Kontakt in Poland. Then in 1995 he was invited to teach at the National School of Drama in Delhi, India.
Oleg Liptsin began working in the USA in 1995 and later in Canada. He directed and co-produced Marriage by Nikolai Gogol, Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance in San Francisco, Gilgamesh in Canada, acted in The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky in San Francisco. He conducted workshops in Chicago and San Francisco and participated in various theatre festivals in Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver among others.
Mr. Liptsin was awarded the National Award for Experimental Work in Theatre by the Theatre Union of Ukraine, won the "Best Director" award and 3 nominations for "Best Director" and "Best Actor" in Ukraine and has participated in more than 30 international festivals.
Currently Mr. Liptsin works as director and professor of drama in different parts of the world. He is the artistic director of post-graduate educational program in stage directing at National University of Theatre, Film and TV in Kiev, professor of drama at Slavic University in Moscow, artistic leader of ITE/InternationalTheaterEnsemble–recently established experimental European theatrical network.
Oleg Liptsin's most recent directing credits include: Oscar by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt in Kiev, The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance in San Francisco and The Serpent-Woman by Gozzi in Kiev. Currently Liptsin works on The Dumb Waiter by Nobel Prize Winner Harold Pinter in Paris, Outcry (the two-Character play) by Tennessee Williams, and his adaptation of Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which he titled Apropos of the Wet Snow, and performed with great success in San Francisco. The work was a masterful blend of technology—including simultaneous and delayed live video projections—and the kind of deeply explored emotional acting that Liptsin is known for.
Mr. Liptsin now is working on The Nose based on classical short story by Gogol. The Nose is the first part of the multi-art project GOGOL’S OVERCOAT artistically directed by Oleg Liptsin and produced by InternationalTheaterEnsemble in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the great Russian author.
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- 1960 births
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