Kama Ginkas

[3][4][5] He graduated from the Vilnius Conservatory as an actor in 1962, and from Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinema in 1967, a student in the directing workshop of the famed Georgian-born, Soviet director Georgy Tovstonogov.

In later years at the Young Spectator Theater he staged Nikolai Gogol's Notes of a Madman (2010), Adam Rapp's Nocturne (2013), Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2019), Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape (2021), Leo Tolstoy's Father Sergii (2022), Polina Borodina's Exodus (2022), Notes of the Late Belkin after Alexander Pushkin (2024), and many more.

[6] Many of Ginkas's productions have traveled to festivals in Germany, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Bosnia, Brazil, United States, Poland, Croatia, the Netherlands, the former Yugoslavia, and France.

Ginkas has directed a number of productions outside of Russia, including N.F.B, an opera by Vladimir Kobekin, based on Dostoevsky's The Idiot, in Loccum, Germany (1995), and Chekhov's The Seagull in South Korea (2007).

He has conducted professional master classes at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon; Nottingham, U.K.; Oslo, Norway; Helsinki, Finland; Toronto, Canada; Yale School of Drama, New Haven, CT; and the Paris Conservatory, France.