Boris Nikitin

Theater Director, Writer, Curator
It's The Real Thing Studios
Switzerland

Boris Nikitin, born in Basel and the son of Ukrainian-Slovakian-French-Jewish immigrants, is a theatre director, author and curator of the festival "It’s The Real Thing – Basel Documentary Platform“. Since 2007, his works have been dealing with the representation and production of identity and reality. They are border crossings between illusion theatre and performance, between documentary and propaganda. "Like few others, Boris Nikitin is currently leading theatre to a critical point," writes the German professional journal "Theater heute". The Zurich daily newspaper "Tagesanzeiger" writes: "The Basel director pushes the genre of documentary theatre to its limits." In 2017, Nikitin was awarded the J.M.R. Lenz Drama Prize of the city of Jena for his complete works. In 2020 he received the Swiss Theatre Prize. Boris Nikitin was the holder of the Christoph-Schlingensief Visiting Professorship at the University of Bochum. In 2025 he's teaching at the University of Erlangen, at ZHDK Zurich and the University of Venice.

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Session 4 | Can the Arts Make a Difference Today?
Friday, June 13, 10:15 am - 11:30 am

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