Evgeny Titov

Evgeny Titov was born in Kazakhstan, in the Soviet Union in 1980. He trained as an actor at the Theatre Academy in St. Petersburg and spent several years working as an actor in Russia before he began a course as a director at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. He created his first productions together with acting students at the Seminar, including Copi’s «Viper’s Nest», which was seen as a guest production at the Vienna Burgtheater, and Gogol’s «Marriage», invited to the Körber Studio für Junge Regie at the Thalia Theater Hamburg in 2016. In 2016 he also directed the world premiere of Martin Heckmanns’s «My Heart is Pure» at Staatsschauspiel Dresden. In the 2017/18 season he then directed «Spring Awakening» by Frank Wedekind and «Assassins» by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman for Landestheater Linz. That same season, his highly acclaimed production of Arthur Miller’s «The Crucible» premiered at Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. This was followed by Molière’s «The Imaginary Invalid» at the Hessiches Staatstheater Wiesbaden (2018), Bulgakov’s «Heart of a Dog» at Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (2019), Maxim Gorky’s «Summer Guests» at the Salzburg Festival (2019) and «Vassa Zheleznova» at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden (2020).