Ivan Urivszkij

Ivan Uryvskyi – Ukrainian theater director, one of the most prominent theatre directors in Ukraine, Honoured Artist of Ukraine. Born in 1990 in Kryvyi Rih. Graduated Kyiv National Ivan Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, majoring in stage direction. Since 2020 is employed as a director at the Ivan Franko National Theatre in Kyiv, before that – chief director of the Vasyl Vasylko Odessa Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre. His first performances immediately gained attention, and today Uryvskyi is recognized as one of the most talented young theatre directors in Ukraine. He created numerous performances at the theatres of Kyiv, Odessa, Lviv, and Kaunas, Lithuania. The vast majority of his shows were created on the basis of classical literary texts. Including: A. Camus: Caligula, 2022; H. Ibsen: Peer Gynt, 2021; T. Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire, 2020; A. Strindberg, C. Gozzi, N. Gogol, F. Crommelynck, and Ukrainian classics by I. Franko: The Fortuneless Maiden, 2021; P. Myrnyi: Lymerivna, 2019; O. Kobylianska: Earth 2022; and M. Kotsyubynskyi. His shows were featured and several international festivals in Hungary and Poland. Uryvskyi uses the literary work only as a skeleton, a foundation for his own conception, and always finds new ways to adapt the known classic plots. His performances have received numerous artistic awards and festival prizes, and in 2019, the director was honoured with the highest award of theatrical art in Ukraine, the Les Kurbas Prize. In 2022 he was nominated for Taras Shevchenko National Prize, the highest artistic award in Ukrain.