[2][3] In 2002, Sigarev was named the winner of the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright given out by the Evening Standard for Plasticine.

Sigarev was born in 1977, in Verkhnyaya Salda, Sverdlovsk Oblast, a small town 180 kilometers (110 mi) north of Yekaterinburg, into a working-class family.

Plasticine deals with child rape, Black Milk features a husband and wife team of con men in an abusive relationship, while the main characters of Ladybird steal cemetery markers to sell them to raise money for booze.

[8] nytheatre.com called it "strong piece of theatre, taking its audience headfirst into a deserted wasteland of fear, confused morals and a profound fall from purity.

With resonating performances, impeccable design and a truthful directorial vision"[9] Sigarev has directed three films, Volchok, which was made in 2009 and which he adapted from his own play, Zhit (Living) (2012) and The Land of Oz (2015).