Ekateryna Granitova-Lavrovskaya has graduated from Directing faculty of GITIS in 1997 (class lead by Heifets). Before GITIS her first education was dedicated to architecture — she studied at the Moscow Institute of Land Management Engineers.

Since 1995 she has been teaching in GITIS on the course of Oleg Kudryashov.

From 1999 to 2002 she staged performances at the Estrada Variety Theater in Moscow. In 2007 she worked at the Russian Theatre located in Tallinn (Estonia). During the years of 2005 to 2008 she staged performances at the Moscow Academic Theatre named after Vladimir Mayakovsky.

She was involved in numerous initiatives in theater sphere, bringing new ideas and stories on stage. She was the one who staged the novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya “Girls” (for the first time) at Estrada Variety Theatre. In 2009 she released the first Russian production of Alexei Ivanov’s novel — based on “The Geographer Drank his globe away”.

From 2009 to 2020 she created performances in various theaters in Russia and abroad, including Theater on Maloy Bronnoy, Et Cetera Theater, the Moscow Academic Theater named after M.V. Lomonosov, Central Drama Academy (Beijing, China), the State Academic Russian Drama Theater of the Republic of Bashkortostan (Ufa) and the Russian Academic Youth Theatre.