Aleksey Slusarchuk
Co-director Actor, director, editing director, scriptwriter, author, teacher. Born in 1961 in Saint Petersburg. Graduated from GITIS (Russian Institute of Theatre Arts) in 1991 with a degree in directing. From 1993 to 1997 he was an intern assistant in the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, a teacher in the Department of Dramatic Art, and a PhD student. In 2005 to 2007 he taught acting at The Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, Saint Petersburg; from 2009 to 2013 - at the East European Institute of Psychoanalysis, Saint Petersburg. From 1998 to 2002 he was the artistic director of “Landskrona”, a theatre of modern drama. From 2001 to 2013 he was the leading director of Osobnyak Theatre, Saint Petersburg. During this time he directed around 20 plays, based on pieces by Milorad Pavić, Max Frisch, James Joyce, Friedrich Nietzsche, Erlend Loe and Ingeborg Bachmann. He began working with Ilya Khrzhanovskiy in 2007. First he was a casting director and analytic in «Reka», a company that was creating a Russia-wide database of actors (a collaborative project of Phenomenfilms and Goskino). From 2007 to 2008 he was the casting director, crowd director, 1st AD, actor's director in the DAU project. 2013 - 2020 - a co-director of four films in the DAU project, editing director, scriptwriter, designer in the film company Phenomenfilms.
