The Creative Team

Andrei Kureichik is one of the top playwrights, screenwriters and producers to emerge from Belarus. Author of some 30 plays, he has 17 credits on IMDB as a screenwriter, 4 as a producer, 3 as a director. His plays have been performed at the prestigious Moscow Art Theatre and Janka Kupala Theaters in Moscow and Minsk, as well as at numerous theatres throughout the former Soviet Union. Andrei is a member of the Coordinating Council of Belarus, whose members are called upon to lead the transition to a new government in Belarus. Like many of them, he was forced into exile in Europe to avoid arrest at home. His 2020 play Insulted. Belarus(sia) has been presented at some 230 theaters in 30 countries in 20 languages via the Worldwide Readings Project organized by Andrei and John Freedman. Andrei wrote a companion piece to that play, Voices of the New Belarus, in 2021. It is a verbatim play based on actual historical texts, interviews, and speeches of participants of the Belarus revolution. Andrei was based in Finland in 2021-2022, where he was under the protection of the Artists at Risk program. He was named a Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellow at Yale University for the fall semester 2022.