Evgeny Podyezdnikov


Lighting designer

Evgeny Podyezdnikov was born in 1994. In 2015 he graduated from Moscow’s Theatre Arts and Technical College, specialising in lighting design.

Has worked at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia since 2011 and has been a lighting designer there since 2021. His lighting credits include Askold’s Grave and Il re (2023), Peter Pan, Pagliacci, Rigoletto, Sorochintsy Fair and The Rake’s Progress (2024). As an assistant lighting designer he worked there on The Demon (2022), Béatrice et Bénédict and Adriana Lecouvreur (2023), The Snow Maiden (2024) and Iolanta (2025).

Evgeny Podyezdnikov has created lighting for productions at Moscow’s Arlekiniada Theatre – Arlekiniada (2012), Goat Muzzle (2017), BezDna (Abyss/Bottomless) (2021), WhoIsHamlet (2021/2024), Anomaly (2023), Fishing (2024), Ellipsis and Lyu-bili-li (2025); at the Moscow Children’s Chamber Puppet Theatre – Pismovnik (Letter-Book / The Light and the Dark) (2015) and Moscow–Petushki (2022); at Samara’s SamArt Theatre for Young Audiences – The Threepenny Opera (2019); at the Vladimir Regional Puppet Theatre – The Nutcracker, or The Mystery of the Krakatuk Nut (2021); at the State Russian Drama Theatre of the Republic of Mordovia – The Flying Ship (2024); at Krasnodar’s L.G. Gatov Premiere Creative Association – Tosca (2025); and at the Winter International Arts Festival in Sochi – Fidelio (2025).

At the Mariinsky Theatre he is the lighting designer for Aida (2025).
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