Andrey Zhitinkin: biography and creativity

The bright and bold director Andrei Zhitinkin declares his creative credo with the word "freedom", in his productions he chooses such expressive means that can evoke strong emotions in the audience. His performances are not indifferent, he involves in action, and people either fall in love with him forever, or categorically reject his aesthetics. But the latter is much smaller.

The beginning of the way

November 18, 1960 in Vladimir appeared Zhitinkin Andrei Albertovich. As a child, he dreamed of becoming an actor, he had a comic talent. He was very fond of reading and after school he wanted to enter the philological faculty of Moscow State University. After graduating from school, Andrew went to Moscow and, walking around the city, accidentally came to Shchukin's school. Remembering children's dreams, he spontaneously submitted documents and entered the acting department. He managed to easily do what many entrants spent years on. His classmates were Evgeny Dvorzhetsky, Evgeny Knyazev, Vera Sotnikova, Irina Malysheva. In the training performances Zhitinkin showed undoubted talent, he graduated from the college with a red diploma and was invited to the theater of Vakhtangov, which testifies to Andrey's serious talent. There he worked together with Mikhail Ulyanov and Yuri Yakovlev. When he worked a year in the theater, he had a fateful conversation with Yevgeny Simonov, the main director of the theater. Vakhtangov. He invited Andrei to go to the director's course, saying that he was recruiting the last workshop. Zhitinkin entered the course to Simonov, there were only six people in the group. To date, Zhitinkin is the last student of an outstanding director, working in Moscow. Other classmates Andrew left the country and work in other areas. In 1988, Zhitinkin graduated from the directing department of the Shchukin school again with a red diploma, and he was invited to Sovremennik - one of the best theaters in Moscow.

The profession of an actor

Actor's career is rather short. In the first year after the school, when he worked at the Vakhtangov Theater, together with Yuri Yakovlev, he played a piercing performance about an aging actor. After that, Zhitinkin left his profession for a long time, although all the artists he worked with noted that he brilliantly showed them the essence of the role. In the early 2000s, he played several small roles, including those of Luchino Visconti.

Directing activity

After the school, Andrei Zhitinkin came to the Sovremennik Theater. There, he said, he learned from Galina Volchek's director's will, the ability to subordinate the entire theater staff: from the actor to the illuminator. In the creative plan with this theater, he was not completely lucky. For three years all the performances of Zhitinkin were forbidden. He went to the theater Ermolova, where his first performances appeared, then for several years headed the theater in Malaya Bronnaya, and later - her own theater. But the geography of his productions covered almost the whole world. He worked in all the best theaters in Moscow, he was invited to lecture abroad. But most of all he loves the capital of Russia, without which he is bored and who inspires him.

He managed to work with virtually all the eminent stars of the Russian stage: Innocent Smoktunovsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Alexander Shirvindt, Georgy Zhzhenov, Lyubov Polishchuk, Sergey Bezrukov, Mikhail Kazakov, Vera Vasilyeva and many others. But Zhitinkin's feature as a director is that he works not only with the stars, but also attracts young, novice actors. He seeks to show artists in atypical roles for them, finds interesting material for them.

Andrei Zhitinkin was realized in the cinema, he had two films on his account. But the theater remains his main love in life.

In 1999, Zhitinkin Andrey Albertovich was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

The method of Andrei Zhitinkin

Director Andrei Zhitinkin has a bright creative personality. His main feature as a director is courage. He is not afraid to use techniques on the verge of what is permissible. He shows a lot of naked body, obscene and slang vocabulary, provocative techniques. But all this is due to his aesthetics, and therefore does not cause shock or insult to the viewer.

Today we can say that the "Author's Theater of Andrey Zhitinkin" was formed, and this is not only the designation of the creative method of the director, but also the name of the theatrical collective under his leadership.

Outstanding performances

Andrei Zhitinkin has staged more than 70 performances, many of them significant. The best critics include performances: "Dear Friend" and "Nijinsky. Crazy God clown "in the Mossovet theater," The battlefield after the victory belongs to marauders "in the theater of Satire," Psycho "in Tabakerka," Portrait of Dorian Gray "," Caligula "," Recognition of the adventurer Felix Krul "in his workshop.

Personal life

There are celebrities who carefully protect their private space, including Andrei Zhitinkin, whose private life is taboo for all. The director says that his private life is a theater. He is very much and with great love works, and even in a dream puts performances. It is known that the director is married, but he prefers not to spread his wife. In rare spare time Zhitinkin reads a lot and himself writes a little, he even published two books: "Playboy of the Moscow stage" (about the secrets of the director's profession) and "99" (a collection of poetic works).