Ivan Vyrypaev

Writing

Ivan Vyrypaev

Born 1974-08-03 · Irkutsk, USSR (Russia)

Ivan Aleksandrovich Vyrypaev (Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Вырыпа́ев; born 3 August, 1974; Irkutsk) is a Russian playwright, screenwriter, film/theater director and actor, who works in Russia and Poland. He is a leading figure in the Russian New Drama movement. He is best known for his plays "Oxygen" ("Kislorod") and "Delhi Dance", which have won numerous awards in both theater and film. Father — Alexander Nikolayevich Vyrypaev, a teacher at Irkutsk Pedagogical College No. 1, was awarded the memorial medal "Patriot of Russia". Mother — Vera Timofeevna Vyrypaeva, had a higher trade education, tragically died. In 1995, Ivan graduated from the Irkutsk theater school, after which he worked as an actor of the Magadan Theater for one season, then for two seasons as an actor of the drama and Comedy Theater in Kamchatka. In 1998, he founded the "Space of Play" theater studio in Irkutsk. In the same year, Ivan became a student of the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, studying in absentia at the department "Director of Drama Theater". In 1999-2001, Vyrypaev taught acting skills at the Irkutsk Theater School, on the course of Vyacheslav Kokorin. In 2005, he created the agency for creative projects in the field of cinema, theater and literature "Kislorod Movement" In 2006, he worked as the art director of the "Praktika Theater". In April 2013, he took up the position of artistic director of the "Praktika Theater". Vyrypaev became famous in Europe as a theater playwright, director, and author of a number of projects. His productions, as well as performances based on his plays, are performed in Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, England, France, and Canada. The play "Dreams "has been translated into English, French, German, Bulgarian, and Polish, the play "Valentine's Day" has been translated into German, and the play "Oxygen" has been translated into a number of foreign languages. He taught at GITIS, at the Moscow Art Theater Studio School, and at the Warsaw Academy of Theater Arts. Works in Moscow, lives in both Poland and Russia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Illusions poster
NR

This is a story about love—the kind we chase, the kind we settle for, and the kind that sneaks up on us when we’re not paying attention. It’s about permanence, or the lack of it, and the terrifying realisation that maybe nothing in life—no feeling, no relationship—ever truly stays the same. Alisa Melikova’s debut film Illusions (2025) is a rich tapestry of emotions, following two couples whose lives have been entwined for 50 years. It poses the question: Is love real, or just a story we tell ourselves? And in the end, does it even matter?

Illusions

2025

Salvation poster
5.3

Catholic nun travels to another country and make spirit revolution.

Salvation

2015

Salvation poster
5.3

Catholic nun travels to another country and make spirit revolution.

Salvation

2015

Bummer 2 poster
5.9

The film takes place a few years after the events shown in Bummer. Kostyan "Kot", who lost all his friends, the woman he loved and was nearly killed in the first installment of the film tries to begin a new, peaceful life. But is it possible to do? Has Russia changed and do "bratki" on black "bummers" no longer control business? Can he escape his past?

Bummer 2

2006

Euphoria poster
5.7

They saw each other only once. At a wedding with lots of alcohol. Their eyes met and that was it. They didn't understand rationally what happened to them but they felt that they cannot keep living and breathing without each other. Cosmic magnetism with irresistible intensity pulled them together. They no longer belonged to themselves, their families and friends and that's how a tragedy evolves.

Euphoria

2006

Euphoria poster
5.7

They saw each other only once. At a wedding with lots of alcohol. Their eyes met and that was it. They didn't understand rationally what happened to them but they felt that they cannot keep living and breathing without each other. Cosmic magnetism with irresistible intensity pulled them together. They no longer belonged to themselves, their families and friends and that's how a tragedy evolves.

Euphoria

2006

Intertainment poster
NR

The two main characters, a man and his female friend, came to watch the play. Things happening on stage and real life are gradually mixing up, and now they will have to figure out what is «reality» in the world of endless entertainment.

Intertainment

2020

Intertainment poster
NR

The two main characters, a man and his female friend, came to watch the play. Things happening on stage and real life are gradually mixing up, and now they will have to figure out what is «reality» in the world of endless entertainment.

Intertainment

2020

Intertainment poster
NR

The two main characters, a man and his female friend, came to watch the play. Things happening on stage and real life are gradually mixing up, and now they will have to figure out what is «reality» in the world of endless entertainment.

Intertainment

2020

Oxygen. Monologue poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Oxygen. Monologue

2012

BDT Digital: Excitement poster
10.0

According to Vyrypaev’s idea, “Excitement” is a play about the “Author”. The action takes place in New York, in Manhattan, in the apartment of the famous American writer of Polish descent Ulie Richte, whose role is played by Alice Freindlich. A Polish journalist, Krzysztof Zelinsky, takes a very important interview from her, a closed and non-public person.

BDT Digital: Excitement

2020

BDT Digital: Excitement poster
10.0

According to Vyrypaev’s idea, “Excitement” is a play about the “Author”. The action takes place in New York, in Manhattan, in the apartment of the famous American writer of Polish descent Ulie Richte, whose role is played by Alice Freindlich. A Polish journalist, Krzysztof Zelinsky, takes a very important interview from her, a closed and non-public person.

BDT Digital: Excitement

2020

The House Concert Of Boris Grebenshikov poster
NR

Home concert by Boris Grebenshchikov from London, where the musician was caught in quarantine. The audience will hear both time-tested favorite hits and new songs. Kvartirnik as a format of musical direction appeared in the period of the USSR, when musicians gathered in the apartments of friends and arranged improvised concerts, mainly in the rock style. Boris Grebenshchikov, one of the founders of the format, together with other then – beginning performers, and today – already legends of Russian rock-arranged apartment parties and sang his songs, which eventually became part of the "Golden Collection" of Russian music. Well! Again "Kvartirnik"– now on a different occasion, but with the same energy!

The House Concert Of Boris Grebenshikov

2020

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Supergoper

2009

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pure Light

2010

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pure Light

2010

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pure Light

2010

The Chechen Diary of Polina Zerebova poster
NR

The Diary of Polina Żerebcowa, now an acclaimed writer and journalist, is a moving record of entering adulthood during the course of the war. The Chechen author describes her childhood and youth, which spanned from 1994 to 2004. First as a nine – year-old girl, then as a teenager, she documents her process of adolescence, presents her own vision of the world and immortalizes the experiences that shape her-she records her whole life, which takes place during the horrific Chechen wars. And although Polina's diary is a loose personal note, it is exceedingly evocative and lyrical. It leaves no one indifferent. The show, whose main character is the aforementioned diary presented by the outstanding actor, Andrzej Seweryn, gives Polina her voice so that she can tell us about what she experienced, what happened over the course of 10 years, during the two Chechen wars. Thus the story of how to remain human in the most inhumane circumstances is created.

The Chechen Diary of Polina Zerebova

2017

UFO poster
NR

The film-spectacle “UFO” is the story told by people from the different countries around the world about their contact with an extra-terrestrial civilization. The play is some kind of therapy, as it touches on the basic structures of human mentality, such as egoism, safety, belief in god, gratitude, the spiritual path, etc. According to statistical research, 6 million people claim that they have had contact with aliens; 2 million of them say that they have been hijacked and spent some time in an unknown space. Only 9 tell about something absolutely unbelievable.

UFO

2020

UFO poster
NR

The film-spectacle “UFO” is the story told by people from the different countries around the world about their contact with an extra-terrestrial civilization. The play is some kind of therapy, as it touches on the basic structures of human mentality, such as egoism, safety, belief in god, gratitude, the spiritual path, etc. According to statistical research, 6 million people claim that they have had contact with aliens; 2 million of them say that they have been hijacked and spent some time in an unknown space. Only 9 tell about something absolutely unbelievable.

UFO

2020

UFO poster
NR

The film-spectacle “UFO” is the story told by people from the different countries around the world about their contact with an extra-terrestrial civilization. The play is some kind of therapy, as it touches on the basic structures of human mentality, such as egoism, safety, belief in god, gratitude, the spiritual path, etc. According to statistical research, 6 million people claim that they have had contact with aliens; 2 million of them say that they have been hijacked and spent some time in an unknown space. Only 9 tell about something absolutely unbelievable.

UFO

2020

Iran Conference poster
NR

Representatives of the Danish and world intellectual elite, the best minds of our time are going to a conference in Copenhagen to discuss the urgent "Iranian problem" — violation of rights and freedoms, daily executions, torture and military conflicts in the middle East. An orientalist, theologian, political scientist, military journalist, the wife of the Prime Minister (formerly a well-known TV presenter), writer, priest, famous conductor and Iranian poet — winner of the Nobel prize in literature take turns on the stage.

Iran Conference

2020

Crush poster
5.5

Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are the main characters of the film, heroes in a time of no heroes. All of them have the important qualities of being openhearted and not afraid of loving.

Crush

2009

Crush poster
5.5

Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are the main characters of the film, heroes in a time of no heroes. All of them have the important qualities of being openhearted and not afraid of loving.

Crush

2009