Lyuba
Strizhak
Graduating in 2007 from the Theatre manager department in the
Theatre art Academy of Saint Petersburg, she became a playwright
in 2010 and debuted as a theatre director in 2012 in Teatr.doc’s
project “Klassnaya Drama”.
Today Strizhak has written three plays, ” You are interested”,
“When the Sun Goes Down (Marina)” and “Gym-Shoes”. Each of which
has made the shortlists of prestigious dramaturgic competitions
including the young Drama festival “Lyubimovka” (Moscow), the
Theatre and Cinema Festival about modern reality “Textura” (Perm)
and Alexander Volodin’s festival “Five Evenings” (Saint
Petersburg). Strizhak often writes her plays in collaboration
with theatre directors and participates in numerous Theatre
Laboratories and workshops, including “AMThS – Andrey Moguchy’s
Theatre Space”, which is a Laboratory dedicated to the common
work on creating plays by young directors, playwrights and set
designers. Strizhak is also one of the authors of theatre
festival co-production “Baltiysky Dom” and a documentary play
“ADIN” (Saint Petersburg).
At the Gogol Center she worked on the script of the first part of
Gogol Center opening show “00:00” and on Vladislav Nastavshev’s
play “Fear”