Egor Trukhin | Director
EGOR TRUKHIN - Director
Egor Trukhin is an actor and theater director. He was born on January 31, 1997, in St. Petersburg, Russia, into a theatrical family.
From 2009 to 2013, he attended the Theater of Youth Creativity in St. Petersburg, where he played roles in Pinocchio and Tom Sawyer. In 2013, he enrolled at the Oleg Tabakov's Moscow Theater School. While studying there, he performed in The White Guard, directed by Sergei Zhenovach, at the Moscow Art Theater. After graduating with honors, he joined the trainee troupe of the Tabakov's Theatre and performed in A Lively Place, directed by Vitaly Egorov.
In 2017, Egor entered the Department of Theater Directing at the Russian Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS), under the course of Sergei Zhenovach. During his third year, he staged Hamlet by Shakespeare, which was later presented at multiple festivals such as "Your Chance," "The Future of Theatrical Russia" (Yaroslavl, Russia), the International Shakespeare Festival (Yerevan, Armenia), and the "Tower" Festival (Kaliningrad, Russia). During his studies, he also traveled to Athens in 2018 and 2020 to collaborate with Greek students on Shakespeare and Chekhov projects.
In 2019, Egor made his debut as a film director with the short film In Silence, which was shot in St. Petersburg. The film, dedicated to his hometown, won "Best Experimental Film" at the MOSCOW SHORTS festival in 2021 and received recognition from other international film festivals.
In 2021, he participated in the experimental project "Laboratory of Fiction" at the Russian Academic Youth Theater (RAMT), where he presented a sketch of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. The performance was well-received by both the audience and the theater's committee.
In March 2022, Egor directed Florian Zeller's play The Mother at the Moscow Art Theater. During rehearsals, he wrote a personal letter to Zeller asking for permission to convey all the lines of the other characters to the main character, Anne, in order to amplify her loneliness. He dedicated this work to his mother.
Later in March 2022, Egor left Russia in protest of the invasion policy and became a citizen of Israel. In September 2022, he presented a self-written play, I Am Here, starring actor Anatoly Beliy in the lead role. The play tells the story of a man who loses his entire family because of the war. The performance was shown to a full house in seventeen countries worldwide, including the United States and the United Kingdom.
Starting in 2022, Egor was touring internationally as an actor in the play My Grandson Benjamin, with Liya Akhedzhakova in the leading role.
At the beginning of 2024, Egor staged his self-written dramatic play So Many of You, which is composed of 70% commedia dell'arte and clownery. The play has been performed at various theater venues in Georgia, including the Rustaveli Theater.