After graduating from the Theatre Academy in Irkutsk, he has worked with theaters in Magadan, Kamchatka, and Irkutsk. In the years 2005-2016 he worked with the iconic Praktika Theater, where he was the artistic director (2013-2016). His latest project is Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, staged at the Polish Theatre in Warsaw and considered Poland's best performance of 2017. The most famous of his pieces are Oxygen, July, Illusions, Unbearably Long Embraces, Summer Wasps Bite Us Even in November, and Drunks. Viripaev is a scriptwriter, director and co-producer of six feature films: Euphoria (2006), Short Circuit (2009), Oxygen (2009), Delhi Dance (2012), Advertising Laws (2013), and Salvation (2015). His pieces have been presented at renowned European film festivals, including in Venice and Rome. He has been granted many prestigious awards for his theater and film work, including: Little Golden Lion - Independent Youth Jury Award at the 63rd Venice Film Festival, The main award of the Warsaw Film Festival, The Jürgen Bansemer and Ute Nyssen Award for the Best Playwright (2009), and the main awards of numerous theater festivals (Toruń, Moscow, Heidelberg, and Łódź). Since 2016, he has lived and worked in Warsaw, where he manages the creative house WEDA, one of the most recognized and successful Polish theater producers.

Right after graduation, she joined Viktor Ryzhakov's repertory theater company in Moscow, Russia where she performed in numerous shows: Oleg Glushkov's The Twelve Steps of Gagarin, Viktor Ryzhakov's An Unmodern Concert, #whatpoems: To Love by Andrei Rodionov and Ekaterina Troepolskaya, A Modern Concert by Viktor Ryzhakov and Tatyana Pykhonina, Mikhail Rakhlin's Fro!, and many others. She also appeared in Aleksei Kuzmin-Tarasov's Siri at the Meyerhold Center, in Cazimir Liske's Christmas at Praktika Theater, and helped form the musical group Sauce Kefal. She appeared in Anton Megerdichev's Going Vertical (2017), and stars in Grigoriy Dobrygin's Sheen667 coming out in March 2020. She lives in New York City.

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