Ivan Vyrypaev was born on August 3, 1974 in Irkutsk. In 1995 he graduated from the Irkutsk Drama School. After that he worked as an actor in the Magadan Theater and in the Kamchatka Drama and Comedy Theater. At the same time, he studied drama theater directing at the The Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. In 1999-2001, Vyrypaev taught acting at the Irkutsk Theater School on the course of Vyacheslav Kokorin. In 2006, he worked as the art director of the Praktika Theatre, where from 2013 to 2016 he was artistic director. He also taught at GITIS, the Moscow Art Theater School, and the Warsaw Academy of Theater Arts. Plays by Ivan Vyrypaev have been translated into foreign languages ​​and staged in theaters in Russia, Poland, England, France, Canada, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria. Ivan Vyrypaev is also known as a film director ("Euphoria", "Oxygen", "Pure Light", "Delhi Dance"). In the Bakhrushin Theater Museum collection, there are photographs and posters of performances by Ivan Vyrypaev, staged at the Praktika Theater («Sugar», «UFO», «Grace and Fortitude»), Moscow Art Theater (“Drunken”), the theater center “Na Strastnom” (“Oxygen”), the theater “Workshop of P. Fomenko” (“Summer wasps bite us even in November”), the Moscow theater “School of Modern Play” (“Explain”), Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater (“Drunken”), Russian State Academic Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin ("Solar line"), the Novosibirsk Drama Theater "Old House" ("Valentine's Day"), the Russian Drama Theater in Vilnius ("Dreamworks. A Dream Comes True") and others.