Yevhen Nyshchuk

Corresponding Member of the NAA of Ukraine

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Yevhen Nyshchuk

    born in 1972

Stage and Film Actor, Public Figure

    Corresponding Member of the NAA of Ukraine (2025)

    Honored Artist of Ukraine (2005)

    People’s Artist of Ukraine (2015)

    Recipient of the Order of Prince Yaroslav Mudryi, 5th Class (2019)

After graduating in 1993 from the Kyiv National Ivan Karpovych Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Cinema and Television University, Yevhen Nyshchuk began his career as an actor at the Kyiv Academic Workshop of Theatrical Art Suzirya (“Constellation”). Since 2015, he has been an actor at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater, and in April 2024, he was appointed General Director and Artistic Director of this troupe. On Ukraine’s premier national stage, he has performed numerous significant roles, including: Erik XIV, King of Sweden (Erik XIV after A. Strindberg), Robert Lokamp (Three Comrades based on E. M. Remarque’s novel), Mykhailo Hurman (Stolen Happiness by Ivan Franko), and Christian de Neuvillette (Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand).
Yevhen Nyshchuk's creative biography includes a number of roles on the stages of other theater companies: Atelier 16, the Mushlia Poetry Theatre, the Molody Theatre (Kyiv), and the Taras Shevchenko Cherkasy Academic Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre. His screen work is equally extensive, with appearances in such films as Bratstvo (Brotherhood, 2004), Zalizna Sotnia (The Iron Hundred, 2004), Vladyka Andrei (Metropolitan Andrey, 2008), Dyvo (The Miracle, 2009), Cyborgs (2017), Kruty (2018), The Secret Diary of Symon Petliura (2018), and The Old Miller’s Tale (2020).
Twice serving as Minister of Culture of Ukraine (2014; 2016–2019), Nyshchuk initiated the creation of the Ukrainian Book Institute and the draft law “On the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.” From 2016 to 2019, and again since May 2023, he is the Chairman of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine Committee.