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 (DOB: 16.09.1970)
Actor, director, television anchor, musician
Lushin graduated from the Cherkasov Institute of Theater, Music and Cinema in 1991 (Professor I.O. Gorbachev’s class). In the 1990s, he became broadly known as a singer and musician. As a soloist, he took part in various musical projects, e.g., “The Junior Brothers,” “Prepinaki,” “Khil and the Sons,” “The Eau de Cologne Duo Sasha + Natasha” Trio, and “Precipitations.” The Markscheider Kunst group issued an album with his songs for the performance “To Dig to the Truth – 2.”
1997 – 1998: DJ Alexander Oknov at the Eldoradio radio station;
1998 – 2002: anchorman of the television shows “Today – Piter” (TNT), “The Red Arrow” (NTV), “Wake-up, Piter” (NTV); he was honored as “The Best St. Petersburg Television Presenter – 2000;”
2002 – 2003: anchorman of the “Good Morning” television show (SRTC Petersburg);
2003 – 2005: anchorman/moderator at TV STO’s shows “At the Work Noon,” “A Small Double,” “In Easy Words,” etc.;
2005 – 2006: “Not the Right Time” (SRTC Petersburg);
2007: musical producer, feature film “Oxygen” (Director I. Vyrypayev, the Red Arrow Production Company).
In 2000, Alexander Lushin resumed his theater activities. His jobs at the theater included:
2000: Red, “Capriccio” (Theater in Liteiny, Director Roman Smirnov);
2001: Lopakhin, “The Cherry Orchard” by A. Chekhov (Alexandrinsky Theater, Director Roman Smirnov). In the same year, together with Natalya Pivovarova and his former fellow students Alexander Bargman and Irina Polyanskaya took part in the establishment of the “Such Theater;”
2001: Critic, “The Stale Name-Day” (Such Theater, Director Natalya Pivovarova);
2003: Miguel-Esterban Lopes Jr., “To Dig to the Truth – 2” (Such Theater, Directors Alexander Bargman and Alexander Lushin);
2004: Ventriloquist, “Don’t Even Know How to Start…” (Such Theater);
2006: “More about the Dentistry,” a one-man show (Such Theater, Director Alexander Lushin);
2007: God, the Pen-Pal, “Underpants” (Oxygen Movement / Theater in Liteiny, Director Ivan Vyrypayev);
2007: Doctor Lvov, “Ivanov” by A. Chekhov (Such Theater, Directors Alexander Bargman, Anna Vartaniyan);
2009: Alexander Borisovich, Demons’ Taskmaster, “Cain” by G. Byron & Klim (Such Theater, Director Alexander Bargman).
He has filmed in: “The Wedding March” (Director Arkady Tigai, Lenfilm, 1988); “August Running Away” (Director Dmitry Dolinin, Lenfilm, 1989); “The Dogs’ Feast” (Director Leonid Menaker, Lenfilm, 1990), etc. , television series “The Killing Force,” “The Golden Bullet Agency,” etc.
Alexander Lushin is the author of several plays: “Volobuyev, Here Is Your Sword!”; “To Dig to the Truth – 2” (co-authored with Alexander Bargman), “More about the Dentistry,” “Step-Dance, Nonsense.”
He wrote screenplays for television series “The Mongoose” (co-authored with E. Utekhina, NTV); “Classes and Intermissions” (co-authored with O. Donets, 2Plan2 Production Company), feature films “The Torture,” “Superhopper” (co-authored with I. Vyrypayev), “A Unique Trip to the Sanatorium.”
He has published a book of poems “The Geography of Fates” (Doctor Sayenko PH, 1999).
He also wrote for various magazines, including “Pulse,” “Sobaka.ru,” “999.”
Presently, he performs with several groups: “PREPINAKI,” “SWING COUTURE,” “Tres ìuchachîs å companeros.” He is author of the music and musical producer of the following performances: “To Dig to the Truth – 2,” “Even Don’t Know How to Start…,” “More about the Dentistry,” “To Explain” (Oxygen Movement, Director I. Vyrypayev). He is author of the music and musical producer of the films: “Oxygen” (2008, the Red Arrow, Director I. Vyrypayev), “To Feel” (2008, Director I. Vyrypayev), etc. Since 2010, he works with the film studio RWS SPb as project musical producer.
Since 1999, he has been cooperating with the Neva-Film studio as a voice-over actor.
He has dubbed such films as “Timon and Pumba,” “The Duck Stories,” “The Lazlo Camp,” “The Beauty and the Monster,” “In the Search for Nemo,” “Star Wars,” “The Waterman,” “Me, You, and Irene,” “The Story of Toys,” “A Very Epic Film,” “Marilee and Me,” etc.
He was admitted to the Alexandrinsky Company on April 1, 2011, and was introduced to “The Taming of the Srew” by W. Shakespeare (Director Oskaras Korshunovas) in the role of Tranio. His next job at the theater was the role of Eilert Levborg in the performance “Hedda Gabler” by H. Ibsen (Director K. Ginkas, 2011). In December 2011, he was introduced to the role of Dorn in Khrystian Lupa’s performance after the motives of A. Chekhov’s “The Seagull.”
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