Mykhailo Urytskyi


Mykhailo Iakovych Urytskyi is a Ukrainian puppet theater director, director of the Kiev Municipal Academic Puppet Theater, and a teacher at The Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University.
Mykhailo Urytskyi is a laureate of international festivals and theater awards.

Biography

First higher education – actor of the puppet theater.
Second higher education – director of the puppet theater. M. Urytskyi is the author of the scientific work "Peculiarities of psychological perception of various forms of the puppet theater by children of preschool age".
For seven years M. Urytskyi worked as an actor in the Crimean Puppet Theater under the direction of Boris Azarov. He embodied on the stage images in the plays "All Mice Love Cheese" Dyula Urban, "Shreds on the Scatter" by Grigoriy Oster, "The Upside Down Tale" by Donald Bisset, and "Snoogle" by John Priestley.
In 1994 Mykhailo left the theater and organized one of the first private puppet theaters in Ukraine – the theatre of fairytale "Harlequin". The first director's productions are "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" and "The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, Peter Yershov's "The Little Humpbacked Horse", Atanas Popescu's "The Little Sunbeam", Carlo Gozzi's "The Love for Three Oranges".

Directing activity

At the invitation of Sergei Efremov, an artistic director of the Kiev Municipal Academic Puppet Theater, M. Urytskyi moved to Kiev to take the post of the director of the theater. For 10 years of work he has staged 15 performances, which have brought 6 municipal prizes "Kyiv Pectoral" to the theater..
In addition to working in the Kiev Theater, he performed productions in theaters of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Slovakia, Moldova and others.
In his works Mykhailo refers to the folk tales of the world, the legacy of the classics of children's literature, works by contemporary authors. According to his own confession, his favourite author is Hans Christian Andersen, whose tales formed the basis for more than 10 performances he staged.
M. Urytskyi equally successfully works with the children's repertoire and the performances for the adult audience. Realized a number of projects in the genre of musical theater.
According to the data of 2017, M. Urytskyi has staged more than 50 performances.

Pedagogical and social activities

From 2013 to 2015 M. Urytskyi served as a vice-president and a chairman of the commission for the protection of professional, social and material interests of UNIMA members. He is a theater curator of the project "Bylo ne bylo"].
Since 2008 Mykhailo Urytskyi has been working as a teacher at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Among the graduates there are directors Lyudmila Zemelko, Marichka Vlasova ; actors of the theater and cinema Tatiana Kazantseva, Pavel Borysenok, Maria Senko, Vasily Protsyuk, Yulia Olekseenko, Vladimir Shikalo and others.
Mykhailo Urytskyi lives and works in Kyiv.

Awards and recognition

The director's works are awarded with numerous awards and prizes of the Kiev, all-Ukrainian and international festivals, among which there are the Grand Prix 2008 of the International Theater Festival for Children and Youth "Luchafarul" for the performance "Nightingale". He became a laureate in the category "Best Director" of the International Festival-Competition "INSPIRATION The international Theater Arts Competition-Festival" for the performance "Thumbelina" ; of the II International Festival of puppet theaters of the Caspian states "The Caspian coast" for the performance "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" ; of the XIV International Festival of theaters for children "Іnterlyalka-2013" for the performance "Thumbelina" ; of the XXIII International Festival of Puppet Theaters "SPOTKANIA" for the performance "Oscar".
Mykhailo Urytskyi is a multiple winner of the theatrical award "Kyiv Pectoral" in the nominations "Best Performance for Children". He became the first and the only director for the present, who won in two main nominations of the Kyiv Pectoral: performance was recognized by the experts of the award as the best by the results of 2016 in the nomination "Best Performance of the Dramatic Theater", and Mikhail Urytskyi became the laureates of the nomination "Best director's work".