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Theater NYC           Theater International           Film          TV           Screenplays & Plays          Education           Training           Awards

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ANDRE DION

(aka A Kirchner, Andre Kirchner)

Director

 

 

 

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- Theater:  MANHATTAN  (2001-2007) -

 

A KIRCHNER'S  ALCATRAZ (multimedia play with poetry and life music)       Seven Tigers at 14th Street Theatre

TERENCE'S  EUNOCHOS   (own adaptation)                                                      Outdoor Theatre /ATA/ Seven Tigers

LERMONTOV'S  THE DEMON                                            (sold out run)               Our Savior's Atonement Lutheran Church

The Way Things Are                                                  (off Broadway)           Chernuchin Theatre/Seven Tigers

Plautus AMPHITRYON    (own adaptation)                                                    Outdoor Theatre /ATA/ Seven Tigers

UNDER THE CROSS        (with Brdway’s Mark Zeller)                                      Diaspora Drama Group

A Glance at New York (with Brdway’s Delphi Harrington)                         HERE/Lincoln Center Prod.

A GAME OF CHANCE                                                                                         Samuel French Fest

FALLING AWAKE                                                                                              Abington + Genesius Guild

Confessions of Love – EDITH PIAF                              (sold out run)            HERE/Love & Soul Prod.

The Edith Piaf Show                                                   (sold out run)            Musical Theatre Works/L & S Prod.

EROTICA NEUROTICA    (Jean Dalrymple Award)         (extended  run)         Sargent Theatre/ATA/Seven Tigers

Remembrance of Things Present                                                                 Beckman Th./Seven Tigers Prod.

Morgan Spurlocks The Phoenix  (Fringe NY Award)                                     Sargent Theatre/ATA

THE QUEEN’S KNIGHT                                                                                        Sargent Theatre/ATA

Aristophanes’ Lysistrata   (own adaptation)                                             Outdoor Theatre /ATA

Dreams of a Winter Night                                                                           American Theatre of Actors

The Murder of Joyce Carol Oates                          (extended run)          Theatre Studio Inc.

Planets                                                                      (extended run)           TSI

Power Love                                                                (extended run)          TSI

 

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- Theater:  International -

 

Strindberg’s The Stronger                                        (extended run)                       Russian Drama Theater Berlin

    (Over 400 performances; with special performance for Mr. Diepgen, Mayor of Berlin, Germany)

Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot – Scenes from the NoveL (sold out run)                          School of Dramatic Art Theatre Moscow

    Artist House Bethania Berlin (with special performance for Ariane Mnouchkine)           

Th. Mann’s Joseph and his Brothers   (adaptation)                                               School of Dramatic Art Theatre Moscow

Verdi’s Opera Nabuko (with Susan Neves)   as AD (Dir.: Hans Neuenfels)               Deutsche Opera Berlin

Bulgakov’s The Master and MargArita   (adaptation)                                          Theatre-Theatre, Moscow

Bergman’s Scenes of a Marriage                            (extended run)                       The New Theatre, St.Petersburg

The Mad Prince                                                                                                          Theatre-Theatre, Moscow

Petroushka – a lyric fantasy                                                                               The New Theatre, St.Petersburg

Verona                                                                                                                       Indoor Theatre, Moscow

Shakespeare’s The Tempest                                                                                       University Theater, Moscow

Outer Space - DISCO FEVER                           (sold out run,  audience award)         University Theater, Moscow

The Stone Age Dance  - A ROCK SHOW                      (extended run)                       University Theater, Moscow

The New Romeo                                                                                                          University Theater, Moscow

Chechov’s Orchard              (sold out run)  as AD (Dir.: Boris Yukhananov)         Theatre-Theatre, Moscow

 

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- Theater:  Educational -

 

Lermontov's The DEMON   (2007 Version)                                                                Kingsborough College, Brooklyn, NY

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- Film -

 

The Life of SeraphiM             (studio feature)                                  as Co-Director             Mosfilm Studios Moscow

ANGELS IN LIMBO                     (studio feature, Dir.: Valeri Ogorodnikov)      as AD               Lenfilm Studios St.Petersburg

The Sand castle                    (indie - distributed+TV run)   (audience award) as Director Kaskeline Productions Berlin

Ogorodnikov is shooting    (documentary, TV run)                                   as Director      Lenfilm Studios St.Petersburg

Carnival                                (studio feature, Dir.: Tatiana Lioznova)         as Performer   Gorki Studios Moscow

DÉSIRER LA LUNE                     (indie - distributed, Dir.: Rolf Jaster)             as Performer   Via Film Paris

 

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- TV -

 

A Little Hamlet, A Little Cherry Orchard           as Director                  (aired on:)       Russian National TV

The Wedding   (documentary)                                    as Director                  (aired on:)       Regional Russian TV

Berlin again  (documentary)                                    as Director                  (aired on:)       Regional Russian TV

The Torch Light                                                         as TV Host                   (aired on:)       Russian National TV+regional

Rock Journal                                                            as TV Host                   (aired on:)       Russian National TV+regional

Kommissar Rex                                                         as Performer               (aired on:)       Sat 1, Germany

 

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- Screenplays -

 

The Sand Castle - produced (award winning indie)

The Shack (co-author) - produced (award winning studio feature)

The Lawyer (co-author), sold

Emergency, sold

Little Sister, opted

The Passerby

Kaboom (short)

 

- plays -

 

ALCATRAZ - produced, NYC World Premiere 2007

LYSISTRATA - adaptation, NYC World Premiere 2002

AMPHITRYON - adaptation, NYC World Premiere 2005

EUNOCHOS - adaptation, NYC World Premiere 2006

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- Education -

 

School of Music: Composition, Vocal, Classical Guitar, Front man/Singer of the Russian Rock band KAMMERTON.

Semashko Medical School Moscow, M.D., Honor student, summa cum laude graduate.

Humboldt University Berlin: Ph.D. (magna cum laude), residency, fellowship, Professor, tenure faculty member for 7 years.

Postgraduate: GITIS Theatre Institute/School of Dramatic Arts Moscow: Theatrical Direction (Anatoli Vasiliev).

Postgraduate: Free Academy Moscow/St.Petersburg, Master Class of Individual Directing (Boris Juchananov), M.F.A.

Columbia University, School of Arts, Film Division (auditor)  (Ira Deutschman, David Linde et al.).

Film Academy Berlin

European Film Academy,  (Wim Wenders)  (Academy Award winner)

Erich Pommer Media Institute / UFA Babelsberg: Film Production

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- Training -

 

Lincoln Center Directors Lab 2002,  Daniel Sullivan, Robert Moss, Moisés Kaufman, Marshall Mason, Larry Sacharow, Carey Perloff

Commercial Theatre Institute Manhattan 2003

International Directors Workshop,  Robert Wilson

Theater Schaubühne Berlin: Rehearsal Observership of Chehov’s Cherry Orchard, Dir.:  Peter Stein

Directing Opera,  Hans Neuenfels

International Directors Workshop, Artist's House Bethania, Berlin,  Istvan Szabo  (Academy Award winner)

Screenwriting classes at Hunter College: Syd Field, Linda Seeger, Christopher Vogler, John Truby, Tim Roth

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- Awards and ARTISTIC Residencies -      

 

2005 White Oak Plantation Residency/Baryshnikov Dance Studio, FL (Howard Gilman Foundation, The Field)

2004 JEAN DALRYMPLE AWARD in the category BEST DIRECTOR (NYC)

AUDIENCE AWARD for Dance-Drama Performance "OUTER SPACE" (Moscow)

AUDIENCE AWARD for the indie film "THE SAND CASTEL" (Berlin).

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 THANK YOU FOR BEING CURIOUS!

Hope to see you soon in the theatre! 

 

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