Director of documentary productions at Teatr.doc, the Meyerhold Center, the Sakharov Center, and the Museum of Architecture in Moscow, as well as at the Novosibirsk Globe Theatre. Patlay's works focus on pressing issues in Russian society and have sparked significant public response. She left Russia in 2022.

In 2023 she became the first resident of the “Artists at Risk” programme at the Brecht House Museum in Augsburg and staged the play “Memoria” specially for Brechtfestival-2024.

She curated the theatre program “Archaeology of Memory” at the Sakharov Center and one of the curators of the festival “Hunting for Reality” at Teatr.doc.

At present Anastasia Patlay is one of the artistic directors of the Independent Russian Playwriting Festival “Lubimovka”.

She also mentors various educational initiatives and teaches documentary playwriting at UnTold School.

Studied at the Tashkent Theatre Institute (Tashkent), the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow), the Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre Directing School of Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov (Moscow), and the Theatre Leader School (Moscow).

Portfolio

Director& playwright: Teatr. Doc (Moscow), Sakharov Center (Moscow), Meyerhold Center (Moscow), Russian State Library, The Ilkhom Theatre (Tashkent), Globus Theatre (Novosibirsk), Brechtfestival (Augsburg), Kulturzentrum GOROD (Munich)
Screenwriter: The Illuminator Project
Curator, Mentor: Teatr. Doc (Moscow), Sakharov Center (Moscow), HSE University, The Moscow School of New Literature, The Ilkhom Theatre (Tashkent), Echo of Liubimovka
(2023-2025)

2024
MEMORIA, German version (director):
Brechtfestival, Brechtbuhne, 24 February 2024
Munchener Kammerspiele, 16 October, 2024
Video

2023
DISCREDITING (co-author, director of reading), Reforum Space, Berlin, 22-23 Apr. 2023
Video

2022
MEMORIA (director), Meyerhold Center, 9-10 February 2022
Video

2021
NEFORMAT (director), Teatr.doc & Meyerhold Center, Moscow, Dec. 2020 (Teatr.doc), Feb - Dec 2021 (The Meyerhold Center)

October 2020- May 2021
Tutor at Documentary Workshop at Moscow School of Literature

2020
TANGO MORGEN, TANGO PLI (director), Globus Theatre, Novosibirsk, Sept. 2020 - May 2021

September 2019 - June 2020
Tutor at Documentary Workshop at HSE University

2019
SOMETIMES I FLY (tutor, playwright, director), The Ilkhom Theatre, Tashkent, September 2019
THE HOURS OF AIRING (author, director), performance at Russian State Library, April 2019.

February 2015 – May 2019
Curator of Theatre Laboratory “Archeology of Memory” at Sakharov Center

2018
MERCY (director) Nov 2018 – Feb 2020, Teatr.doc, Sakharov Center
THE SYNDROME OF ANCESTORS (author, director) — November 2018, GULAG History Museum

May 2018
Curator at the Laboratory on Documentary Choreography, Sakharov Center

April 2018 – December 2018
Tutor at the dramaturgical workshop “Jews in USSR: family in the History”

2017
MELNIKOV. DOCUMENTARY OPERA (director), December 2017, Moscow State Museum of Architecture, the production has two nominations on “Golden Mask”
Video

2016
KANTGRAD (director), December 2016 - current time, Teatr.doc
Video
THE DIARY OF A PEASANT (director) — October 2016 – December 2018, Sakharov Center.
OUT OF THE CLOSET (director), September 2016 - current time, Teatr.doc
Video
DEPARTURE LOUNGE (director, playwright, tutor) — The Heinrich Boell Foundation summer school
«TSVETAEVA. WARDROBE» (director) — Teatr.doc, July 2016-2019

2015
BEYOND THEATRE (director) - Teatr. doc, 2015
Video
PUSHKIN & MONEY (director) — Teatr. doc, 2015 – current time

2011
INSULTED FEELINGS (director) — Teatr.doc. The New Culture Festival (Moscow)
Video