Yana Ross is a Lithuanian-American director.
Career
She directed the plays Sleeping Beauty and Bambiland by Elfriede Jelinek, and has worked internationally from Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz to Seoul Performing Arts Festival in South Korea, Lithuanian National Drama Theater, Finnish National Theater (Finland), Barka Theater (Hungary), Uppsala Stadsteater (Sweden), Laźnia Nowa and TR Warszawa (Poland) and Reykjavik City Theater (Iceland). Ross is a Fulbright Fellowship recipient. She received the John Gassner Memorial prize for her work on Russian Theater of the 21st Century, a special project in her role as managing editor at Yale Theater magazine. She has received Best Director awards in Sweden, Poland and Lithuania and her work is currently touring to Vienna, New York and China. She was a resident director at the Schauspielhaus Zürich and from 2022 collaborated with Berliner Ensemble.
Personal life Ross was born in 1973 to Jewish/Ukrainian/Polish family, grew up on Baltic sea till age 7. She studied at GITIS (Russian Institute of Theatre Arts) and then moved to the United States in her teens. She obtained a degree in mass-communications and later received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama in 2006. She was working as a television producer in New York when she witnessed the September 11th attacks. She returned to work in Europe in 2007.
Theater Year Title2006A Kingdom in the Snow 2007Bambiland 2007Lucia Skates 2007Bremer Freiheit 2008Macbeth 2008Sleeping Beauty 2009Baumeister Solness 2009Taxi N5 2010Der Reigen 2011Opera.ID 2011Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi 2011Chaos 2012Red Laces 2013Our Class 2014The Killer 2014Uncle Vanya 2014Request Concert 2015Heart of a Dog 2015Seagull 2015The Lake 2017Three Sisters 2018Dollhouse 2018The Wild Duck 2019Tales from Vienna Woods2019Cherry Orchard2019Wunschkonzert2020Mein Jahr der Ruhe und Entspannung (adapted from My Year of Rest and Relaxation)2021Kurze Interviews mit fiesen Männern – 22 Arten der Einsamkeit (adapted from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men)2022Reigen
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