Russia
Graduated from the Shipbuilding Institute (LKI). In 1996 graduated from the directing department of the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts (workshop of Professor I. B. Malochevskaya). Since 1996 he worked as a director at the Lensovet Theater (Open Theater) at the invitation of V. Pazi.
Among his student works the most notable were "The Marriage" by N. Gogol (1995) and "Paradoxalist" based on "Notes from Underground" by F. Dostoevsky (1996). Diploma work "Waiting for Godot" by S. Beckett, produced at the Theater on the Krukov Channel (1996), made Butusov famous: received two awards at the festival "Golden Mask" and was awarded the highest prize for direction at the St. Petersburg festival "Christmas Parade". The production starred Konstantin Khabensky, Mikhail Porechenkov, Mikhail Trukhin (replaced by Oleg Fedorov) and Andrei Zibrov, with whom Yuri Butusov subsequently did several other productions ("Woyzeck", "Caligula", "Klop", "The Death of Tarelkin", "Hamlet"). Speaking about his work at the Lensoviet Theater, the director noted that there he "managed to create his own theater inside". He calls the Satirikon Theater his second "another home".
In 2002 he was invited there by Konstantin Raikin. His first production was Eugène Ionesco's play Macbeth. In 2011 Yuri Butusov won the Golden Mask Award in the Drama / Director's Work category for his production of The Seagull based on A. Chekhov's play of the same name.
Yuri Butusov returned to the Lensoviet Theater in February 2011 (after a 7-year break) as the main director of the theater, where he staged the play "Macbeth. Movie" based on Shakespeare's play "Macbeth". Other productions at the Lensoviet Theater include "All We Are Beautiful People" based on the play "A Month in the Country" by I. Turgenev, "Three Sisters" by A. Chekhov and others.
At the III International Theatre Festival "Alexandrinsky" on September 10, 11, 12, 2008 was presented the performance of Y. Butusov "Man=Man" (Alexandrinsky Theatre) based on the play by B. Brecht "What that soldier, what that soldier", at the IV Festival on October 8, 2009 was presented the performance of Y. Butusov "King Lear", staged at the theater "Satirikon".
