Ivan Aleksandrovich Vyrypaev (Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Вырыпа́ев; Polish: Iwan Aleksandrowicz Wyrypajew; born August 3, 1974) is a Polish, Russian-born playwright, screenwriter, film director, actor and art director. He is a leading figure in the Russian New Drama movement.
In 1995, Ivan graduated from the Irkutsk Theater School, after graduation he worked for one season as an actor in the Magadan Theater, then for two seasons as an actor in the Drama and Comedy Theater in Kamchatka.
In 1998, founded the theater-studio "Space of the Game" in Irkutsk. In the same year, Ivan became a student at the Higher Theater School named after Shchukin, studying at the departments of "Drama Theater Director".
In 1999–2001, Vyrypaev taught acting skills at the Irkutsk Theater School, on the course of Vyacheslav Kokorin.
In 2005, he created the Kislorod Movement agency for creative projects in the field of cinema, theater and literature.
In 2006, he worked as the art director of the Praktika Theatre.
In April 2013, he assumed the position of artistic director of the Praktika Theatre. In May 2016, he left this position.
Since 2020, he has been the general producer of the Okko Theater bureau, which is busy producing and filming performances for shows on the Okko platform. In the spring of 2021, he left this position.
Vyrypaev gained fame in Europe primarily as a theatrical playwright. By 2019, his plays have already been staged in more than 250 theaters around the world. So Vyrypaev entered the top 10 most prominent playwrights in the world. He is also known as a film director, his film Euphoria got into the main competition of the Venice Film Festival and received the award of the "youth jury" "small golden lion" for the best film. He taught at GITIS, at the Moscow Art Theater School, the Warsaw Academy of Theater Arts.
In May 2022 he became a Polish citizen while also remaining a citizen of Russia.
On 17 May 2023 the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested Vyrypaev in absentia in connection on the charges of "spreading fake news" about the Russian army
