Andrei Kureichik

As of August 2021, Kureichik was living in Helsinki, Finland.

In August 2021, Kureichik received direct death threats from agents of Lukashenko regime.

In May 2020, during the 2020 Belarusian Presidential election campaign, he proposed a plan for changing the government without an election and a revolution. He suggested to the contender for the presidency of the Republic of Belarus, Viktor Babariko, to create an organization or a party that would unite supporters of changes during the presidential election campaign. On 17 August 2020, he became a member of the core committee of the Coordination Council to ensure the transfer of power in the Republic of Belarus.

In 2007, Kureichik moved from Minsk, Belarus, to the village where his parents came from, near Smilovichi, and wrote the script for the film Love-Carrot-2. In 2010, he returned to Minsk with his family. His wife, Olga, is an actress at the Kupalovsky Theater and has played in Memorial Prayer, Pavlinka, and several other performances. In 2012, together with Dmitry Friga, Director Dmitry Marinin, and cameramen Alexei Korneev, Artyom Yakimov, and Nikita Pinigin, he founded the creative group Bez Buslou Arts.

In 2004, Kureichik did an internship for managing non-profit organizations that was sponsored by the US Department of State. He also acted as an art director of Diva Belaya Rus, a commercial festival of Belarusian women that was held at the Palace of the Republic. He was invited to teach theatrical disciplines at the BSU Lyceum. Later, he created the radio program Theatrical Intermission with Andrei Kureichik on the national radio Culture and taught at the directing department of the Russian Academy of Theater Arts GITIS. In 2006, he was editor-in-chief of the Vestnik Kultury newspaper.

In 2003, he worked as an editor of Hotel of Desires Fulfillment, the first Belarusian television series. The Center for Contemporary Drama and Directing was founded by Kureichik within the Belarusian State Academy of Arts; the Center produced several performances and events. As an art director, he also established the International Festival of Contemporary Theater Open Format, the largest theater festival in Belarus.

At the age of 21, he staged a play at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. The play Paradise Lost directed by Kureichik premiered on the Yanka Kupala National Academic Theater stage on 9 November 2002. On 21 June 2003, the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater hosted another premiere under Kureichik's direction, The Piedmont Beast, which became one of the winners in the contemporary play competition established by Oleg Tabakov together with the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. This play was later staged in many other theaters, repeatedly in the Mayakovsky Theater. Since 2007, Kureichik has been working as a screenwriter in the cinema industry.

From 2001 to 2002, Kureichik worked as a lawyer at Vlasova and Partners, an international law firm. He was also an assistant to the chairman of the Belarusian Union of Theater Workers fulfilling the responsibilities of press secretary and head of multiple art projects. Since 2002, he has authored over 150 articles as a commentator at Belorusskaya Gazeta, a top weekly political and economic newspaper. Kureichik also served as editor-in-chief of the National Television (ONT) and was on the creative team of the sociopolitical talk show Choice.

Kureichik was born in Minsk. In his youth, he was trained by his father in Wushu and won the Minsk championship in 1992. He graduated from BSU Lyceum and then continued his studies at Belarusian State University (BSU) School of Law. As a sophomore at BSU, he had multiple part-time jobs, including scanning fingerprints in a forensic center and working in a law firm. Kureichik graduated from BSU with honors, specializing in administrative law and political science. He further completed the postgraduate program at BSU Department of Journalism and the film director's internship at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater (2002) under the supervision of Oleg Tabakov, the People's Artist of the USSR.

Andrei Kureichik (Belarusian Андрэй Уладзіміравіч Курэйчык; born January 14, 1980) is a Belarusian screenwriter, playwright, director, and publicist.