Victor Kramer

Stage-Director Victor Kramer_photo by Yulia Larionova

Graduated from the Pskov Pedagogical Institute in 1984 (history and English).
Graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography in 1991 (stage directing; class of Georgy Tovstonogov).
From 1992-1993 was Head Stage Director with Slava Polunin´s Fool´s Academy.
From 1992-1997 was a senior teacher at the St Petersburg State Academy of Theatre (class of I. Malochevskaya).
Artistic Director of the Farces theatre company since 1992.
General Producer of Kramer & Co production since 1998.

Between 1991 and 2005 he has created over fifty major theatre and show projects, among them:
theatre productions: The Children of Raik (The Leninsky Komsomol Theatre, St Petersburg, 1991), The Farces, or New Medieval French Jokes (Drama and Comedy Theatre on Liteiny, St Petersburg, 1991); Fantasies, or Six Characters in Expectation of a Wind (1994, prize from the Fringe First Edinburgh Festival), Vokhlyaky from Golopleky, or Sleepy Dreaming (1995), Povaretskye Plyaski (1995), Hamlet (1998), Stepanchikovo and its Inhabitants (2001) – productions for the Farces theatre company, St Petersburg; Passions for Moliиre (Comedy Theatre, St Petersburg, 1998), Les Troyens (Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire Theatre of Opera and Ballet, St Petersburg, 2000), The Servant of Three Madams (Estrada theatre, Moscow, 2002), Boris Godunov (premiered at La Scala (Milan) in April 2002 and at the Mariinsky Theatre in May 2002), Ruslan and Lyudmila (Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 2003);
show programmes: the carnival The Three Nights (Slava Polunin´s Fool´s Academy), Slava´s Snow Show, the large-scale public events 300 years of the Great Legation of Peter I and 300 years of the Russian Fleet (Kaliningrad), 200 Years of Pushkin, the laser show 21^st Century Moscow, the Strauss Ball (the Konstantin Palace, State residence of the President of Russia, 2003), New Year in Rome (Rome, 2003) and a Venetian Carnival production (Tsarskoe Selo, 2005).

Has received prizes and diplomas including the Golden Sofit, the Golden Mask, the Golden Ostap, The Baltic House, Fringe First (Edinburgh) and the Lawrence Olivier Prize (London).