A theatre specialist and music critic. He is the editor-in-chief of the theatre section on internet portal Colta.ru as well as a staff writer at Kommersant. Renansky has previously worked as the head of future planning at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St Petersburg, and has served on the Board of Experts of the Golden Mask national theatre award. He is the co-founder of creative group Opergruppa, curator of the Laboratory of Contemporary Opera (Moscow, 2012-13), and a deputy director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre New Stage.