Andrei Vorobiev

Andrey Vorobyov has worked at the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop since the theatre was founded in 1993. Over the years, he has risen from theatre administrator and assistant director to Managing Director, a position he has held since 2001.

In the Workshop’s early years, he worked in a wide range of theatrical roles, from stagehand, lighting technician and sound engineer to company manager, assistant to the Artistic Director and Deputy Director. This experience shaped his approach to theatre management, in which organisational work is inseparable from the creative process.

Under Andrey Vorobyov’s leadership, the theatre has undergone some of the most significant developments in its history. One of the largest projects was the construction of the Workshop’s new building on Taras Shevchenko Embankment, which opened in 2008. Vorobyov was directly involved in the design and implementation of the project, working alongside architect Sergey Gnedovsky and the theatre’s artistic and technical team. For this work, he received the Moscow City Prize for Literature and the Arts, followed by the Stanislavsky Prize.

His work has also encompassed the development of the theatre’s technical infrastructure, the major renovation of the Old Stage, the expansion of the theatre’s touring activities, book publishing projects and professional training programmes for young theatre practitioners.

Following Pyotr Fomenko’s death in 2012, Andrey Vorobyov, together with Artistic Director Evgeny Kamenkovich, continued to preserve and develop the Workshop’s artistic traditions. In interviews, he has repeatedly emphasised the importance of the performers’ creative independence, continuity between generations and the unique atmosphere of a theatre that grew out of Pyotr Fomenko’s original workshop.

Andrey Vorobyov is also involved in teaching. Since 2014, he has taught at the Producing Department of the Moscow Art Theatre School, where he graduated his first class in 2019 and recruited a new group of students in 2024. In 2023, he also graduated a part-time class from the Producing Department of GITIS.

His work has been recognised with numerous professional honours, including the Moscow City Prize for Literature and the Arts (2008), the Stanislavsky Prize (2011), the Theatre Star Award for Best Theatre Director (2019) and the Art Platform Moscow Performing Arts Award for Manager of the Year (2024).

• Awards and Honours:
• Moscow City Prize for Literature and the Arts, Architecture category, for the design and completion of the new building of the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop (2008)
• Stanislavsky Prize for the preparation and opening of the New Stage of the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop (2011)
• Theatre Star Award, Best Theatre Director (2019)
• Art Platform Moscow Performing Arts Award, Manager of the Year (2024)