Born in 1974

Kovalenko graduated from Yekaterinburg State Theater Institute in 1996. He worked at the Yekaterinburg Drama Theater. In 1997-2002, he served at the Novosibirsk State Academy Drama Theater and played here more than twenty various characers in Oleg Rybkin’s performances; among those were: “Zoika’s Apartment” by M. Bulgakov (Cherub), “A Midnight Dream” by W. Shakespeare (Pack), “The Life Overcame Death” (Harms), “Inspector General” by N. Gogol (Khlestakov), “Ivonna, the Princess of Burgundia” by V. Gombrovich (Kirill), “Roberto Zucco” by B.-M. Kolt?s (Roberto Zucco), and others; he also played in Grigory Kozlov’s performance “Two Evenings in a Joyful House” (the Teacher). In 2002, he was invited to the troupe of the Alexandrinsky Theater. On its stage, he started with Medico Gibner in “The Covetous Knight” and Don Carlos in “The Stone Guest” (Director: G.Kozlov). In 2006, he played Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, Jr. – the double of the main character in “The Double,” a St. Petersburg poem by F. Dostoyevsky (Director: Valery Fokin), and also the part of Victor Karenin in “The Living Corpse” by L.Tolstoy (Director: Valery Fokin). Director Krystian Lupa invited Vytaly Kovalenko to play Shamrayev in his performance of “The Seagull.” He works actively in the cinema. 

In the performance “The Taming of the Shrew” by W. Shakespeare (Director Oskaras Korshunovas, 2010), he plays the role of an actor from the Lord’s troupe assuming the role of Gremio, one of the bridegrooms seeking for favor of Bianca the beautiful. In Andrey Moguchy and K. Filippov’s performance “The Fortune” he plays the role of Tobik-the Green Dog of Tiltil and Mitil (Director Andrey Moguchy, 2011).