Yana Ross

Yana Ross is a Latvian-American director.

Yana Ross
Born
Moscow, Russia
OccupationDirector

Career
2015

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,[1] Finnish National Theater (Finland), Barka Theater (Hungary), Uppsala Stadsteater (Sweden), Laźnia Nowa [2] and TR Warszawa [3] (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 2023 starts long-term collaboration with Berliner Ensemble.[4]

Personal life

Ross was born in 1973[5] Moscow to Jewish/Ukrainian/Polish family, grew up in Latvia till age 7.[6] 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[7] in 2006.[8] She was working as a television producer in New York when she witnessed the September 11th attacks.[9] She returned to work in Europe in 2007.[7]

Theater
Year Title
2006 A Kingdom in the Snow
2007 Bambiland
2007 Lucia Skates
2007 Bremer Freiheit
2008 Macbeth
2008 Sleeping Beauty
2009 Baumeister Solness
2009 Taxi N5
2010 Der Reigen
2011 Opera.ID
2011 Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi
2011 Chaos
2012 Red Laces
2013 Our Class[7]
2014 The Killer
2014 Uncle Vanya
2014 Request Concert
2015 Heart of a Dog
2015 Seagull
2015 The Lake
2017 Three Sisters[10]
2018 Dollhouse
2018 The Wild Duck
2019 Tales from Vienna Woods
2019 Cherry Orchard
2019 Wunschkonzert[11]
2020 Mein Jahr der Ruhe und Entspannung (adapted from My Year of Rest and Relaxation)[12]
2021 Kurze Interviews mit fiesen Männern – 22 Arten der Einsamkeit (adapted from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men)[13]
2022 Reigen[6]

References
  1. "Lithuanian National Drama Theatre".
  2. "Łaźnia Nowa Website".
  3. "Kulturalna Warszawa".
  4. "Official Website".
  5. "Yana Ross". Lithuanian Culture Institute. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  6. Kainberger, Hedwig (2022-08-01). ""Reigen"- Regisseurin Yana Ross im Interview: "Der Troll ist brisant geworden"". Salzburger Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 2022-08-11.
  7. Braškytė, Alma (2017-08-10). "Yana Ross: A Director Who Transforms Timeless to Timely". The Theatre Times. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  8. "Interview with Yana Ross — Staging Difficult Pasts". Staging Difficult Pasts. February 2019. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  9. "Regisseurin über Lehren aus der Coronakrise - "Es wird eine neue Normalität geben"". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
  10. "TRYS SESERYS. Pagal Antono Čechovo dramą - Lietuvos nacionalinis dramos teatras". www.teatras.lt. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  11. Kedves, Alexandra (2019-11-12). "In Polen fehlt ihr die frische Luft". Tages-Anzeiger (in German). Retrieved 2022-08-11.
  12. Lau, Sarah (2021-09-23). "Regisseurin Yana Ross bringt Pornostars auf die Bühne". Annabelle (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 2022-08-11.
  13. Richard, Katja (2021-09-13). ""Pornografie ist ein Spiegel unserer Gesellschaft"". Blick (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 2022-08-11.


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