Andrii Olehovych Derik (March 3, 1968, Zaporizhzhia) is a Ukrainian dramatic actor and composer, Honored Artist of Ukraine.
He graduated from the Dnipro Theater School in 1987. His teachers were Anatoliy Litko and Lidia Kushkova-Shevchenko). Immediately after graduation, he was enrolled in the troupe of the Zaporizhzhia Theater for Young Spectators (now the Zaporizhzhia Academic Youth Theater).
In 1993, he moved to Mykolaiv, where he first performed at the Mykolaiv Russian Drama Theater named after V. Chkalov, and since 1997 - at the Mykolaiv Ukrainian Drama and Musical Comedy Theater.
In 2002, he graduated from the Mykolaiv branch of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, majoring in conducting by Lyudmyla Holovashchenko and vocals by Lyubov Samokhlib.
He teaches at the Pani Kulisa theater studio.
Creative work.
Performer of the roles of Andrii (Katerina by Mykola Arkas), Danylo (Wooed - Unwed by I. Poklad), Andriy (The Cossack Beyond the Danube by Semyon Gulak-Artemovsky), Mario (Illegal by Anatoly Krym), Count Danylo (The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar), Falk (The Bat by Johann Strauss Jr.), Alfred Doolittle (My Fair Lady by Frederick Law), Zoroastro (Leonardo), Father Fyodor (The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov), Journalist (The Shadow), Judge (Marusya Churai by Lina Kostenko), Selifan (Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol), Dmitry Oskin (Kill Me Now, I Don't Remember! ") and others.
He is the author of music for the one-man shows Assol, Midget Nose, Braveheart, Slanting Eyes (based on plays by Viktor Ponizov).
Awards.
Honored Artist of Ukraine (2007)
Laureate of the All-Union Festival of Folk Art (1987, Moscow)
Winner of the competition "When Soldiers Sing" (1991, Moscow)
"Grand Prix of the International Festival "Planet Mykolaiv",
Winner of the Mykolaiv Regional Mykola Arkas Prize
