George Tsypin
is an American
stage designer
,
sculptor
and
architect
.
He was an artistic director, production designer and coauthor of the script for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014.
Early life and education
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Tsypin was born in Kazgorodok,
Kazakhstan
(former
Soviet Union
), where his parents were in internal exile after being released from
GULAG
as political prisoners.
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He studied architecture in Moscow and theater design at
NYU
in New York.
Career
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Tsypin has worked for many years with renowned directors and composers, such as
Julie Taymor
,
Peter Sellars
,
Francesca Zambello
,
Pierre Audi
,
Jurgen Flimm
,
Philip Glass
,
John Adams
,
Kaija Saariaho
and
Andrey Konchalovsky
.
He has won many awards, including the International Competition of "New and Spontaneous Ideas for the Theater for Future Generations" at
Georges Pompidou Center
in Paris.
His designs for opera have been produced all over the world, including Salzburg Festival, Opera de Bastille in Paris, Covent Garden in London,
La Scala
in Milan, Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg, Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Tsypin has worked in all major theaters in the United States, as well as in film and television.
His sculpture received its first one-man gallery show in 1991 at the Twining Gallery in New York. He created the Planet Earth Gallery, one of the Millennium Projects in England: a major installation of moving architectural elements, videos and 200 sculptures.
Tsypin was chosen to exhibit his work at the
Venice Biennale
in 2002. His monograph,
GEORGE TSYPIN OPERA FACTORY: Building in the Black Void
, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2005.
Tsypin's
Broadway
debut as a set designer for a musical was
Disney Theatrical
's production of
The Little Mermaid
, at the
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
.
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He designed the set for the new musical
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
for which he won Outer Critics Award and received Tony Award nomination.
He designed the
SeaGlass Carousel
for
Battery Park
next to the
World Trade Center site
.
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Family
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George lives in New York with his wife Galina. He has two daughters, Allie, a film director, and Sonja, a cinematographer.
Selected publications
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- Sculpting Space in the Theater: Conversations with the top set, light and costume designers - Paperback (Oct. 12, 2006) by Babak Ebrahimian
- George Tsypin Opera Factory: Invisible City, Princeton Architectural Press, 2016
- GEORGE TSYPIN OPERA FACTORY: Building in the Black Void" Princeton Architectural Press, 2005.
- Inside George Tsypin Opera Factory by Lucy Lu, Peking, 2012.
- Into the Abiss: Essays on Scenography by Arnold Aronson, University of Michigan Press, 2005
- Tony Davis,
Stage Design
, RotoVision, 2001
- Ronn Smith,
American Set Design 2
, pp. 159?173, Theatre Communications Group Inc, 1991
- "George Tsypin"
, Polyhymnion
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