Andrei Kovalev
Theatre portfolio by Andrei Kovalev: a man in a long dark coat walks through a maze of small concrete house models.

Theatre portfolio

Much of my work is for theatres, theatre companies, single plays, directors and actors. I make posters, cast portfolios, and stage and character design.

The Baron sings from sheet music while a wolf plays guitar among brass instruments and gramophones.
Case study

Baron Munchausen

Key visuals for Sergey Diachkovsky’s Baron Munchausen at the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theatre, Moscow, July 2018. The Baron takes tea from a samovar with a bear.

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The Seagull poster: an actress in a pale gown stands before hanging strips of gauze in misty light.

The Seagull

Posters for Anton Chekhov’s classic, staged by Kirill Pirogov at the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theatre, Moscow.

An actress in profile, her hair in a bun, wears a black dress and a long beaded necklace.

The Fomenko Portfolio

Portraits of the full cast and creative crew of the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theatre, Moscow.

The Episode poster: two actors’ faces cut and spliced into one black-and-white collage.

The Episode

Key visual for The Episode, a play by Mamuka Tkemaladze at the Batumi State Theatre, Georgia.

A man in a knit cap holds the head and jaw of a bald man in glasses from behind.
Case study

The Zoo Story

In 2017, stylist Tatiana Almond and I designed the characters and the stage for Edward Albee’s play, staged by the Georgian director Mamuka Tkemaladze at the Tumanishvili Theatre, Tbilisi. From that work I made the key visuals for the play’s promotion.

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Danish performance artist Christian Falsnaes for Baku magazine, Baku, Azerbaijan
Georgian actress Nutsa Mestumrishvili, Tbilisi, Georgia
Georgian actor Malkhaz Abuladze as King Claudius in Hamlet, Marjanishvili Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia
Artemy Fogel of the Salva Theatre with students of the Baletta dance school, on my Photoband 2017 course, Moscow
Georgian actor Anri Bibineishvili-Jakeli, Tumanishvili Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia
Tarlan Gorchu, director of the Azerbaijan Marionette Theatre, and his company, for Baku magazine, Baku, Azerbaijan
Zurab Kipshidze, legendary Georgian stage and screen actor
The cast sits at a long table at the far end of a vast factory hall.

The Condemned of Altona

Key visuals for Jean-Paul Sartre’s play, staged by Vano Khutsishvili at the Liberty Theatre, Tbilisi.

The Widow from Valencia collage: the cast’s portraits fill the widow’s black cloak.

The Widow from Valencia

In February 2019, I shot a poster for the Vakhtangov Theatre’s play, staged by the Durnaya Kompaniya theatre company.

Three actors on a smoky stage, one holding a red flag high on a pole, beside a tuba.

Vive La Révolution!

A teaching shoot on my Photoband 2018 course, with Infundibulum and the Center for Dramatic Arts, Moscow.

A woman with closed eyes, white lines and marks drawn across her face.
Short film

The True Case of Jack the Ripper

In October 2019, my team and I made a teaser trailer for Soundstream’s audio play about Jack the Ripper. Meet the suspects.

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Four actors in costume in black and white, the King in a crown and a braided uniform.
Special project

King Lear: The Epic Panorama

In December 2017 I came up with an ambitious project for the Tumanishvili Theatre’s King Lear: 16 characters in one very long picture.

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