© Uliya Orisha
Born in Tomsk (Siberia, Russian Federation).
In 2007 she graduated from St. Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy with
a Master’s degree in Acting and Directing (workshop of Yuri Krassovsky).
She performed the role of Lyubov Ranevskaya in the graduation production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, directed by Yuri Krassovsky and Galina Filimonova. In 2007, with the production of The Cherry Orchard she participated in the 4th International Theatre Festival in Warsaw, where she received the Award for Best Actress for her performance as Lyubov Ranevskaya. After the festival she was invited to direct The Cherry Orchard at Warsaw Theatre Academy (Teatr Collegium Nobilium).
From 2008 to 2010 she worked as Director at the Alexandrinsky Theatre
in St. Petersburg, Artistic Director – Valery Fokin. She was Assistant Director for the production of Ksenia. Love Story by Vadim Levanov, directed by Valery Fokin.
In 2010 she directed her first production at the Alexandrinsky Theatre — The Kings by Julio Cortázar.
From 2019 to 2022 she worked as Director and Set Designer at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre in St. Petersburg, Artistic Director Andrey Moguchy.
Productions at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre — Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald, 2019,
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee, 2022
She is a permanent participant of the festivals of the Golden Mask National Theatre Award.
Her productions participated in international theatre festivals NEVA-SAIMAA
TEATTERISILTA (Imatra, Finland), St. Petersburg Theatre Season (Belgrade, Serbia, 2015; Athens, Greece, 2016).
Participant of Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, New York, 2012
Participant of the Directors Lab in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, director of the
production of Ivan Vyrypaev’s play Delhi Dance, 2012
She did an internship in the framework of the Internationales Forum program
of Theatertreffen, Berlin, 2015
Winner of the Youth Theatre Award Breakthrough as Best Young Director for the production of Brothers based on The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Priut komedianta Theatre, St. Petersburg, 2016).
Winner of the Special Award of the Expert Council of Golden Sofit Awards for the production of Face of the Earth by Asya Voloshina, Evgeniia Safonova (St. Petersburg State Youth Theatre, 2018).
Winner of the International Stanislavski Prize in the category Perspective (Moscow, 2019).
Winner of the Golden Mask National Theatre Award in the category Best Set Designer for the production of W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre in St. Petersburg, 2020.
Winner of the annual TOP 50. The Most Famous People of St.Peterburg award in the category Theatre, 2020.
Winner of the Golden Mask National Theatre Award in the category Best Set Designer for the production of Béla Bartók's Duke Bluebeard’s Castle at the Opera and Ballet Theatre in Perm, 2024.
2022 — Duke Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bartók, Prologue and epilogue by Valery Voronov. Music director and conductor Fyodor Lednyov, Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Director, set designer
2022 — Oбiйми (hold me hold me hold) by Alina Belyagina, Dance Performance with experimental sound landscape and smoke toys, two dancers, voice, one live musician, digital landscape. Support V-A-C Foundation, Chanel Culture Fund, Goethe Institute Munich.
Curator (Outside eye)
2022 — Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee, Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre, St. Petersburg. Playwright, director, set designer
2020 — Incidents based on texts by Thomas Bernhard, digital online series in collaboration with composer Vladimir Rannev and media artists Mikhail Ivanov & Pavel Gordeev, Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre, St. Petersburg. Concept, director, performer
2019 — The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin, St. Petersburg Lensovet
Theatre. Playwright, director, set designer
2019 — Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald, Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre, St. Petersburg. Playwright, director, set designer
2018 — Medea based on texts by Euripides, Seneca, Heiner Müller, St. Petersburg Lensovet Theatre. Playwright, director, set designer
2017 — Jacopo Da Pontormo. Artist from outside and inside by Giorgio Vasari, Jacopo da Pontormo, Arkady Ippolitov, St.Peterburg, POST Theatre. Performer
2017—Face of the Earth by Asya Voloshina, Evgenia Safonova, St. Petersburg State Youth Theatre. Director, set designer
2016 — Mamleev. The Other based on texts by Yuri Mamleev, Voronezh
Chamber Theatre. Playwright, director, set designer
2014/2015 — Brothers based on The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Priut komedianta Theatre, St. Petersburg. Playwright, director
2013 — Pagans by Anna Yablonskaya, Youth Theatre, Tomsk. Director
2012 — A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians by Dorota Maslowska,
ONTheatre, St. Petersburg. Director, set designer
2010 — The Kings by Julio Cortázar, Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg. Director, set designer
In 2007 she graduated from St. Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy with
a Master’s degree in Acting and Directing (workshop of Yuri Krassovsky).
She performed the role of Lyubov Ranevskaya in the graduation production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, directed by Yuri Krassovsky and Galina Filimonova. In 2007, with the production of The Cherry Orchard she participated in the 4th International Theatre Festival in Warsaw, where she received the Award for Best Actress for her performance as Lyubov Ranevskaya. After the festival she was invited to direct The Cherry Orchard at Warsaw Theatre Academy (Teatr Collegium Nobilium).
From 2008 to 2010 she worked as Director at the Alexandrinsky Theatre
in St. Petersburg, Artistic Director – Valery Fokin. She was Assistant Director for the production of Ksenia. Love Story by Vadim Levanov, directed by Valery Fokin.
In 2010 she directed her first production at the Alexandrinsky Theatre — The Kings by Julio Cortázar.
From 2019 to 2022 she worked as Director and Set Designer at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre in St. Petersburg, Artistic Director Andrey Moguchy.
Productions at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre — Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald, 2019,
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee, 2022
She is a permanent participant of the festivals of the Golden Mask National Theatre Award.
Her productions participated in international theatre festivals NEVA-SAIMAA
TEATTERISILTA (Imatra, Finland), St. Petersburg Theatre Season (Belgrade, Serbia, 2015; Athens, Greece, 2016).
Participant of Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, New York, 2012
Participant of the Directors Lab in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, director of the
production of Ivan Vyrypaev’s play Delhi Dance, 2012
She did an internship in the framework of the Internationales Forum program
of Theatertreffen, Berlin, 2015
Winner of the Youth Theatre Award Breakthrough as Best Young Director for the production of Brothers based on The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Priut komedianta Theatre, St. Petersburg, 2016).
Winner of the Special Award of the Expert Council of Golden Sofit Awards for the production of Face of the Earth by Asya Voloshina, Evgeniia Safonova (St. Petersburg State Youth Theatre, 2018).
Winner of the International Stanislavski Prize in the category Perspective (Moscow, 2019).
Winner of the Golden Mask National Theatre Award in the category Best Set Designer for the production of W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre in St. Petersburg, 2020.
Winner of the annual TOP 50. The Most Famous People of St.Peterburg award in the category Theatre, 2020.
Winner of the Golden Mask National Theatre Award in the category Best Set Designer for the production of Béla Bartók's Duke Bluebeard’s Castle at the Opera and Ballet Theatre in Perm, 2024.
Performances:
2022 — Duke Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bartók, Prologue and epilogue by Valery Voronov. Music director and conductor Fyodor Lednyov, Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Director, set designer
2022 — Oбiйми (hold me hold me hold) by Alina Belyagina, Dance Performance with experimental sound landscape and smoke toys, two dancers, voice, one live musician, digital landscape. Support V-A-C Foundation, Chanel Culture Fund, Goethe Institute Munich.
Curator (Outside eye)
2022 — Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee, Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre, St. Petersburg. Playwright, director, set designer
2020 — Incidents based on texts by Thomas Bernhard, digital online series in collaboration with composer Vladimir Rannev and media artists Mikhail Ivanov & Pavel Gordeev, Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre, St. Petersburg. Concept, director, performer
2019 — The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin, St. Petersburg Lensovet
Theatre. Playwright, director, set designer
2019 — Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald, Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre, St. Petersburg. Playwright, director, set designer
2018 — Medea based on texts by Euripides, Seneca, Heiner Müller, St. Petersburg Lensovet Theatre. Playwright, director, set designer
2017 — Jacopo Da Pontormo. Artist from outside and inside by Giorgio Vasari, Jacopo da Pontormo, Arkady Ippolitov, St.Peterburg, POST Theatre. Performer
2017—Face of the Earth by Asya Voloshina, Evgenia Safonova, St. Petersburg State Youth Theatre. Director, set designer
2016 — Mamleev. The Other based on texts by Yuri Mamleev, Voronezh
Chamber Theatre. Playwright, director, set designer
2014/2015 — Brothers based on The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Priut komedianta Theatre, St. Petersburg. Playwright, director
2013 — Pagans by Anna Yablonskaya, Youth Theatre, Tomsk. Director
2012 — A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians by Dorota Maslowska,
ONTheatre, St. Petersburg. Director, set designer
2010 — The Kings by Julio Cortázar, Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg. Director, set designer
