Ignatiy Kuznetsov

Biography

Born in Yalta. In 2019 graduated from the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School (masters Yuri Solomin and Olga Solomina). Amongst his student works are Mizgir (The Snow Maiden by Alexander Ostrovsky) and Turuntaev (The Abyss by Alexander Ostrovsky).

Debuted at the Maly Theatre while still a student, performing Stepan in Nikolai Gogol’s comedy Marriage. In 2019 was accepted into the troupe of the Maly Theatre where he has performed over twenty roles.

Ignatiy Kuznetsov played in the series The Hour of the Owl (director Vladimir Yankovsky), Orlova and Alexandrov (director Vitaly Moskalenko) and Fortune Teller (director Ilya Kazankov).

Repertoire

Roles at the Maly Theatre
Stepan (Marriage by Nikolai Gogol, director Yuri Solomin, 2017)
Prince Narumov (The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin, director Andrey Zhitinkin, 2019)
Doctor (Tsar Boris by Alexei Tolstoy, director Vladimir Beylis, 2019)
Robber (The Snow Queen by Evgeny Schwartz, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 2019)
Boatman (Wedding, wedding, wedding based on Anton Chekhov’s plays The Bear and The Proposal, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 2019)
The Servant (The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, director Stefano De Luca, 2019)
Pierre (The Handsome man by Alexander Ostrovsky, director Vasily Fedorov, 2019)
Young man (The Power of Darkness by Leo Tolstoy, director Yuri Solomin, 2020)
Efim (Barbarians by Maxim Gorky, director Vladimir Beylis, 2020)
MacArthur (The Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, director Alexei Dubrovsky, 2020)
Yonkers resident (Always Call Dolly by Sergey Plotov and Vladimir Ivanov, based on The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder, director Vladimir Ivanov, 2020)
Harlequin (Buratino by Alexei Tolstoy, directors Yuri Solomin and Stanislav Soshnikov, 2021)
Cat (The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Alexander Pushkin, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 2021)
Official (A Profitable Position by Alexander Ostrovsky, director Andrey Tsisaruk, 2021)
Vasilkov (Money to Burn by Alexander Ostrovsky, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 2021)
Weier, Foreman (Time of Troubles. 1609-1611 by Vladimir Medinsky, director Vladimir Beylis, 2021)
Surin (The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin, director Andrey Zhitinkin, 2021)
Ganya Ivolgin (The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, director Andrey Zhitinkin, 2021)
Kochkarev (Marriage by Nikolai Gogol, director Yuri Solomin, 2022)
Grishka (At the Jolly Spot by Alexander Ostrovsky, director Andrey Tsisaruk, 2022)
Sidorenko (An Ardent Heart by Alexander Ostrovsky, director Vladimir Beylis, 2022)
Stepan (The Cranes Are Flying by Viktor Rozov, director Andrey Zhitinkin, 2023)
Sokolov (The Captain’s Daughter by Alexander Pushkin, director Stanislav Soshnikov, 2023)