Dmitry Krymov is a Russian theatre director, set designer, artist, and educator. In 1976, he graduated from the Production Design Department of the Moscow Art Theatre School and began working as a scenery designer at the Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya, where he designed productions directed by his father Anatoly Efros. He later collaborated with the Taganka Theatre, the Moscow Art Theatre, and other theatres in Russia and abroad. Throughout his career, he has designed sets for more than 100 production In the early 1990s, he stepped away from theatre to focus on painting, graphic art, and installation art. In 2002, he returned to theatre as a director and began teaching at GITIS (Russian Institute of Theatre Arts). From 2004 to 2018, he headed his own Laboratory at the School of Dramatic Art theatre. Among his best-known productions are “Sir Vantes. Donky Hot”, “Demon. View from Above”, “Opus No. 7”, “Oh! Late Love”, “Seryozha”, and Mozart’s “‘Don Giovanni’. Dress Rehearsal”. Krymov is a five-time recipient of the Golden Mask National Theatre Award. In 2007, together with his students, he received the Golden Triga, the top prize at the Prague Quadrennial. Since 2022, he has been working in the United States, where he founded the theatre laboratory Krymov Lab NYC. The collection of the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum includes posters, programmes, and photographs from productions directed by Dmitry Krymov, as well as his handwritten notes.