Alexey Kondratyev

• Honoured Artist of Russia (2015)
• Recipient of the Golden Mask National Theatre Award for Best Designer in Musical Theatre – for the ballet The King’s Command at Ural Opera Ballet (2020)
• Moscow City Award in Literature and the Arts (Visual Arts category) – for set designs for The Cherry Orchard and Peer Gynt at Lenkom Theatre (2013)
• Silver Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts (2013)
• Moskovsky Komsomolets Award for Best Set Designer of the 2010–2011 Season – for Peer Gynt
• Honorary Diploma of the Russian Academy of Arts – for sketches for the production God at the Mossovet Theatre (2004)

Born in Moscow, Alexey Kondratyev graduated from the Set Design Department of the Moscow Art Theatre School (MXAT) in 1994 and completed a postgraduate assistantship under Oleg Sheyntsis there in 1996.

He has worked as a set designer since 1994 and became Chief Set Designer at Lenkom Theatre in 2009. His notable productions at Lenkom include The Marriage, The Cherry Orchard, Peer Gynt, The Grasshopper, Walpurgis Night, The Day of the Oprichnik, Falstaff and the Prince of Wales, Route Calculated, and Hamlet.

Since 1993 Kondratyev has designed productions for both dramatic and musical theatres across Russia, including the Mossovet Theatre, Moscow Theatre of Oleg Tabakov, Pyotr Fomenko Workshop, Gogol Drama Theatre, School of Modern Drama, Theatre of the Russian Army, Ryazan Drama Theatre, Volgograd Youth Theatre, Irkutsk Drama Theatre named after N. P. Okhlopkov, Ural Opera Ballet, and Krasnoyarsk Musical Theatre. At the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, he created the sets for Vyacheslav Samodurov’s productions of Dancemania (2022) and The Tempest (2024).

From 1994 to 2023 Kondratyev taught at the Set Design and Theatre Technology Faculty of the Moscow Art Theatre School, where he mentored several graduating classes of scenographers.

He has participated in numerous exhibitions of theatrical and scenic art. His works are held in the A. A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, the Russian State Art Library, the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature named after V. I. Dahl, and in private collections.
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