Ilya
Sha­galov

Ilya Sha­galov was born in 1986 in Kras­no­dar. In 2008 he gra­du­ated with a deg­ree in Ac­ting from Kras­no­dar Na­ti­onal Uni­ver­si­ty of Cul­tu­re and Arts. Af­ter his stu­di­es in Kras­no­dar, he en­te­red the Ki­rill Se­reb­renni­kov gro­up at Mos­cow Art The­at­re Scho­ol, which la­ter has grown in­to the Stu­dio Se­ven.

As a di­rec­tor, Sha­galov wor­ked on the fol­lo­wing pro­jects: a sta­ge es­say “Do­minus Mor­fi­us” ba­sed on the texts of Sart­re and Dos­to­evs­ky (wit­hin the pro­ject “The The­at­ri­cal Al­ma­nac”), the pro­duc­ti­on “The Fa­iry­tale Li­ves of Rus­si­an Girls” by Mar­ga­ret Mi­rosh­nik (The Cen­ter of Dra­matur­gy and Di­rec­ting), “Fun­ny Dre­ams” ba­sed on “A Dre­am of a Ri­dicu­lo­us Man” by Fy­odor Dos­to­yevs­ky (the Pro­ject Plat­form), the ope­ra “Mi­nota­ur Dre­ams” (The The­at­re of Na­ti­ons), a show in Scha­ubühne the­at­re (Ber­lin, Ger­ma­ny).

Sin­ce 2004, Ilya Sha­galov has al­so wor­ked as vi­deo de­sig­ner and VJ. He par­ti­cipa­tes in dif­fe­rent vi­su­al art fes­ti­vals. In col­la­bora­ti­on with Ki­rill Se­reb­renni­kov he pro­duced the vi­deo de­sign for “Kijé” (The Mos­cow Art The­at­re), “Aro­und Ze­ro” (Oleg Ta­bakov The­at­re), “Wo­yzeck” (The Na­ti­onal The­at­re of Lat­via), “A Mid­summer­night’s dre­am” and “The Hun­ting of the Snark” (The Stu­dio 7). Ilya Sha­galov is an up-and-co­ming di­rec­tor-ex­pe­rimen­ter. His works fe­atu­re ec­cent­ric forms, mi­xed gen­res and va­ri­ous me­ans of exp­res­si­on from vi­su­al art to li­ve mu­sic.