Actor, director, editing director, scriptwriter, author, teacher. Born in 1961 in Saint Petersburg. Graduated from GITIS (Russian Institute of Theatre Arts) in 1991 with a degree in directing. From 1998 to 2002 he was the artistic director of "Landskrona", a theatre of modern drama. From 2001 to 2013 he was the leading director of Osobnyak Theatre, Saint Petersburg. Alexey began working with Ilya Khrzhanovsky in 2007. From 2007 to 2008 he was the casting director, crowd director, 1st AD, actor's director in the DAU project. 2013 - 2020 - a co-director of four films in the DAU project, editing director, scriptwriter, designer in the film company Phenomenfilms.