Roman Lykov

WELCOME

About Me

I am Roman Lykov, a theatre director of Kyrgyzstani origin, currently based in Germany. Graduated from Theatre Arts University GITIS in Moscow under the mentorship of Dmitry Krymov. My work encompasses a range of genres, from text-centric and musical theatre to circus, documentary, performance, and immersive experiences. I approach modern theatre with a focus on challenging conventions and exploring new forms of expression. The stage, for me, is a versatile canvas for reinventing theatricality.

PORTFOLIO & EDUCATION

Theatre Director

·2020 – Degree in Theater Directing. GITIS
(Moscow), (class of E. Kamenkovich and D.
Krymov).

·2014 – 2015 – Directing Department of Institute
of Contemporary Art in Moscow.

·2010 – Bachelor’s degree in Economics.
American University of Central Asia in Bishkek.

PLAYS
  • People are Waiting for Tanks to Go (2019)

    People are Waiting for Tanks to Go (2019)

    By Anna Geizhan “People are waiting for the tanks to go” based on the play by A. Geizhan was a part of the theater laboratory on political change. It is on Mikhail Gorbachev and events of “Putch” in August 1991.The main idea of the play is that freedom was lost today just like it was…


  • Memory Speak (The Other Shores) (2022) 

    Memory Speak (The Other Shores) (2022) 

    By Vladimir Nabokov Nizhny Novgorod Gorky Drama Theater.  “Memory speak” is a mix of Nabokov’s lectures on Russian literature, his poems and an autobiographical novel The Other Shores. Nabokov as a character of a play gives a lecture in an American university. He tries to explain what Russia used to be in his childhood and…


  • Women as Lovers (2019)

    Women as Lovers (2019)

    By Elfride Jelineck GITIS. Moscow Women as Lovers” by Elfride Jelineck was my first show directed within Theater Institute of Theater Arts GITIS. It is based on a modernist feminist Austrian novel.  Telling the story of a girl who decided to be no more than a woman. For me it was a theatre piece about…


  • Suzuki (2021)

    Suzuki (2021)

    by Alexey Schipenko Moscow Drama Theater named after M. N. Ermolova. Alexey Schipenko went into a Turkish car shop in Berlin, got fascinated by its atmosphere and wrote a play “Suzuki” where “a German kills a German”. The play was staged in Baracke by Thomas Ostermeier.  I got fascinated by Schipenko’s play and decided to…


  • A Show with the Forbidden Name (2023)

    A Show with the Forbidden Name (2023)

    By Alexey Zhitkovsky Theater 705. Bishkek. Kyrgyzstan.  The play is on censorship and how each new turn of history brings artists in a situation of humiliation and impossibility to confront the language of authorities. Documentary text by Alexey Zhitkovsky describes the exhibition in the Manege in 1962, showing the clash between young artists and culture…


  • Queen of Spades (2023)

    Queen of Spades (2023)

    Alexander Pushkin comes to the city of Shymkent in Kazakhstan to talk about his beloved city of Saint-Petersburg. The poet who spent 6 years of his short life in exile still wanders the universe with a group of characters created by him. They drive a soviet minibus “bukhanka” (the bread) and occasionally give performances full…


Career

2023

«Queen of Spades» by Alexander Pushkin.
Russian Drama Theater. Shymkent. Kazahstan

«A Show with the Forbidden Name» (Pederasty)
based on the play by Alexei Zhitkovsky. Theater 705, Bishkek

«Barbeque» (“Shaschlyki”) by Pavel Pryajko.
Theater 705. Bishkek.

2022

«The Naked King» by E. Schwartz. Moscow
Taganka Theater. Project «Rehearsals»

«Memory Speak» by Vladimir Nabokov. Nizhny
Novgorod Gorky Drama Theater.

«Mars» by Marius von Mayenburg. “Brusnikin’s
Workshop” Theater, Moscow.

«Suzuki» based on the plays by A. Shipenko
«Suzuki 1» and «Suzuki 2». Moscow Drama
Theater named after M. N. Ermolova.

2021

«Sandro of Chegem» by F. Iskander. Theatre
Rusdram. Sukhum. Abkhazia.

«Don’t panic» (Site-specific performance) based
on works of D. Adams. Moscow.

«The Gambler» by F.M. Dostoevsky. (sketch of the
performance) Drama and Comedy Theater «Our
House», Ozersk.

2020

«Bradbury» (Site-specific performance) based
on R. Bradbury’s «Green Shadows, White Whale».
Moscow.

2019

«People are waiting for the tanks to go» based
on the play by A. Geizhan. Moscow

«Gorka» by A. Zhitkovsky. «Stary Oskol Youth
Theater»

«Women as Lovers» based on the novel by
Elfriede Jelinek (Diploma performance in GITIS).
Part of the repertoire in Center for Dramaturgy
and Directing. Moscow

2024-now

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UPCOMING SHOW​

Risus etiam dui​

Ultricies nibh morbi amet fames in enim turpis aenean neque commodo nisi, tristique et nulla tellus.

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2023