Director, artistic director of Penza Theatre Kukolny Dom [A Doll’s House] (since 1989) and Ulyanovsk Regional Puppet Theatre (since 2015).
Vladimir was the head of Bratsk Puppet Theatre and staged productions across Russia. He is an honorary cultural worker of the Russian Federation. Two of his productions became the winners of the National Theatre Award THE GOLDEN MASK (The Bear, 2011; To Kill Karol, 2014).
Vladimir Biryukov advocates meticulously psychological puppet theatre, whether he is working with jigging puppets or marionettes, whether he stages Chekhov’s, Mrozek’s or Kolyada’s plays or his own adaptation of a well-known fairy tale. He constantly collaborates with designer Viktor Nikonenko.