Dmitry Krymov is one of the most innovative directors to emerge in Moscow in the last decade. He began as a stage designer in the mid-1970s, often creating sets for his father, the great director Anatoly Efros. From the late 1980s to the early 2000s, Krymov rarely worked in theater, preferring to focus on his highly successful career as a painter. He made his directing debut in 2002 with a production of Hamlet at the Stanislavsky Drama Theater. He also began teaching design at RATI (Russian Academy of Theater Arts) and it was here that his life and work changed drastically. Not satisfied with teaching young designers merely to make models and practice designing costumes, he required his students to perform in the spaces and with the props they designed. From this grew a new and whimsical kind of theater, in which design, acting and dramatic texts existed on equal levels, and which eventually was accepted as a semi-independent studio at Anatoly Vasilyev’s famous School of Dramatic Art. Thus was born the independent, experimental, creative collective called Dmitry Krymov’s Theatre Laboratory.
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