Theater started as conversations about theater for me. Those conversations turned into theater making along the way.
Arseniy Fariatiev graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for playwriting. After graduation, he returned to Moscow, Russia. Among his plays are: "This Isn't Me" (Prostranstvo Vnutri, Moscow; directed by Anton Fedorov), "The Kingdom of the Crooked” (Almetyevsk Tatar Drama Theater, directed by Fedorov; six nominations for the Golden Mask Award 2021, including Best New Play and Best Large-Scale Production) and “Nadezhdiny” (directed by Egor Baranov, performed by Masha Mashkova). In 2022, in collaboration with Kirill Serebrennikov, he wrote new dramatic scenes for Carl Maria von Weber's opera "Der Freischütz" for the Dutch National Opera (Amsterdam), which was featured at the Dutch Festival. In 2022, after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Arseniy left Russia and staged his play “The Chaikas” (MiMoDa Jazzo Studio, Los Angeles) with Annie Hägg and Sam Kahn. In 2024 he was accepted into the directing MFA program of Columbia University and is now studying under Anne Bogart and Brian Kulick.
