Roman Kocherzhevsky

Stage Director

Roman Kocherzhevsky was born in 1987 in Leningrad. In 2007 he graduated from St Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy (course of Yuri Krasovsky).

Since 2007 Roman Kocherzhevsky has worked as an actor and director at the Lensoviet Theatre in St Petersburg. There he has performed many roles including Treplev in The Seagull, Horatio in Hamlet, Cassio in Othello, Fleance, Ross and the Doctor in Macbeth. Cinema, Pompey in Measure for Measure, Shpekin in The Government Inspector, Chebutykin in Three Sisters, and Ilya Ilyich Telegin in Uncle Vanya. Also served as an assistant to Yuri Butusov on the productions All We Are Fine People (2013), The City. The Marriage. Gogol (2015) and Shakespeare’s Room (2016).
At the Lensoviet Theatre he staged Dead Souls (2019; director and designer; Special Prize of the Expert Council of the Golden Sofit), Duck Hunting (2020; director and designer), Tartuffe (2021), An Ordinary Story (2023; director and designer), The Minor (2024) and The Dresser (2026).

Has also created the productions The Return of Myshkin (New Holland, St Petersburg, 2019), The Waiting Room (Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, St Petersburg, 2022), Diary of a Madman (Chekhov Centre, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 2022), Novel with Cocaine (Fazil Iskander Russian Drama Theatre, Sukhum, Abkhazia, 2023; director and designer), Pushkin’s Fairy Tales (Peterhof, 2024), Nostalgia for the Present/Genuine (Grand Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonia, 2025), The School for Scandal (Red Torch theatre, Novosibirsk, 2025), Samson. Revival (Peterhof, 2025), The Special Patient (Chekhov Centre, 2025; director and designer), The Seagull (Fazil Iskander Russian Drama Theatre, 2025; director and designer).

In 2026 Roman Kocherzhevsky staged the production Idomeneo, rè di Creta at the Mariinsky Theatre.

Recipient of the St Petersburg theatre award Breakthrough for the best supporting role in The Queen of Spades. The Game (2021). Nominee for Russia’s National Theatre Award Golden Mask for the best supporting role in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (2022).
Information for April 2026