Kirill Serebrennikov was born in Rostov-on-Don, and finished school with a gold medal. His father was is a surgeon, and his mother – a Russian language and literature teacher. He staged his first performance during his early school years. In 1992 he graduated from Rostov State University physics department with honors. During his student years, In 2008 he formed an experimental actor-director course at the Moscow Art Theatre School. By 2012 the class had transformed into Studio Seven, which later became a Gogol Center resident. During 2011-2014 Kirill was the artistic director of the Platform project at the Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art.