Boris Nikitin (CH)

Theatre-maker and curator Boris Nikitin, born in Basel/Switzerland in 1979, studied Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen from 2002 to 2008, where he carried out a variety of artistic projects including the “diskurs 05” festival and the plays “Woyzeck” (2007) and “F wie Fälschung” (2008/09), that were both invited to the Impulse festival as two of ten outstanding independent theatre productions in 2009. Since 2009 he has been realising projects in the independent scene and at municipal theatres, including at Kaserne Basel, HAU, Gessnerallee, Theater Freiburg, and Schauspielhaus Graz. His projects “Imitation of Life” (2009) and “Woyzeck” have been touring internationally for several years. “F wie Fälschung” was awarded the Dietmar-N.-Schmidt Prize at the German Impulse festival, while “Woyzeck” received the jury prize at the 100° festival in Berlin. Most recently, he staged the project “How to win friends & influence people” with the Mormon community in Freiburg (2013). Boris Nikitin lives in Basel.