Pavel Akimkin

Pavel Akimkin was born in the city of Kursk. He graduated from a music-oriented high school with a specialty in the bayan (the Russian accordion). He entered the Gnesin College of Music in 1998 in order to become a folk choir conductor. In 2006 he graduated from Oleg Kudryashov's acting class at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS).

His theatre roles include:
The Author in Asar Eppel's “The Grassy Street,” directed by Svetlana Zemlyakov;
Sergei Snegiryov in Nina Sadur's “Bullfinches,” based on Viktor Astafyev's novel “The Damned and the Dead,” directed by Timofei Sopolyov and Mikhail Chumachenko;
Khoma in Nikolai Gogol's “Viy,” directed by Svetlana Zemlyakov;
The Waiter in “Blue Beard,” directed by Oleg Kudryashov;
Kai in Alexander Demakhin and Roman Ignatyev's musical “The Tender Queen,” directed by Veronika Rodionova;
The Drug Addict in Vladimir Pankov's production of “Passage”;
Title role in Saint-Exupery's “The Little Prince,” directed by Yevgeny Tkachuk;
Lycaste, Servant and the Sailor in “The Bachelor Moliere” at the Contemporary Play School.