Odin Lund Biron

Odin Lund Biron leads the life of a truly versatile artist across cultures. Born in the United States on the shores of Lake Superior, he travelled to Russia at the age of 20 to study for three months at the Moscow Art Theatre School (MXAT). He stayed—and ultimately worked in Moscow for fifteen years. In 2009, Biron graduated from MXAT with distinction, one of the few non-Russians ever admitted to complete the school’s prestigious, tradition-based actor training. He then spent five years portraying the foreign medical intern Phil Richards, a standout role in Russia’s most popular sitcom Interns.

An invitation from internationally acclaimed director Kirill Serebrennikov (The Student, Leto, Petrov’s Flu) brought Odin to Moscow’s Gogol Center in 2013, one of Russia’s leading avant-garde theatres. In Serebrennikov’s production of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls, Biron played the title role of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov. Over the following ten highly productive years, he appeared in more than fifteen premieres.

He received two nominations for Russia’s Golden Mask Theatre Award for Best Actor and took part in major international festivals including the Festival d’Avignon (Dead Souls 2016, Outside 2019, The Black Monk 2022).

In March 2022, Biron left Moscow permanently following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and now lives in Berlin. His creative partnership with Kirill Serebrennikov has continued beyond Moscow: in 2022, The Black Monk, with Odin in a leading role, opened the Festival d’Avignon at the Palais des Papes as a production of the Thalia Theatre (Hamburg). Biron also excelled as both actor and singer in Serebrennikov’s Barocco (Thalia Theatre). In May 2022, he walked the red carpet at the 75th Cannes Film Festival to present Serebrennikov’s film Tchaikovsky’s Wife, in which he portrays the composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

In June 2025, Odin made his operatic debut in the iconic role of the Simpleton in Serebrennikov’s production of Modest Mussorgsky’s monumental opera Boris Godunov at Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. Immediately afterwards, he reunited with Serebrennikov for another production at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Hamlet / Fantômes, where in October 2025 Biron took on one of the roles of Hamlet.