In 1995 Ivan Vyrypayev graduated from the actors's faculty of the Irkutsk Drama College. Afterwards he worked as an actor in the Magadan Drama Theater and the Kamchatka Drama and Comedy Theater. In 1998 he founded his own theater studio named The Space of Play in Irkutsk. He also taught acting in the Irkutsk Drama College. Ivan Vyrypayev participated in activities of the new drama center "Theatre.doc" from 2001 and the Praktika theater from 2005.
He is known as the author of numerous film scripts and plays, as well as the book 13 Texts Written in Autumn. In 2005 Ivan Vyrypayev founded the Kislorod Movement agency of creative projects in the field of cinema, theater and literature.
In 2006 he authored and directed the feature film Euphoria.
In April, 2013 Ivan Vyrypayev took the post of the art director of the Praktika theater.
Ivan Vyrypayev is the winner of the national theatrical award Golden Mask, the Presidential Council Award "For Contribution into Russian Literature", the Triumph Award and several awards of international theater festivals.
Ivan Vyrypayev has gained fame in Europe as a playwright, stage director, and the author of numerous projects. His stage productions, as well as performances based on his plays run in Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, England, France, and Canada. Ivan Vyrypayev's play The Dreams has been translated into the English, French, German, Bulgarian, and Polish languages, whereas his play Oxygen is available in Polish, German, Bulgarian, Romanian, English, and French and The Valentine's Day has been translated into German.
Ivan Vyrypayev taught in GITIS, the Moscow Art Theatre school studio, and the Warsaw Drama Academy.
He works in Moscow and lives both in Russia and Poland. He is married to the Polish actress Carolina Grushka and they have a daughter born in 2012.  From 2003 to 2007 he was married to the Russian actress Polina Agureeva, who is the mother of his son Pyotr born in 2005. Ivan also has a son named Gennady born in 1994 in his first marriage.