Yana Ross

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).

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.

[4] Ross was born in 1973[5] to Jewish/Ukrainian/Polish family, grew up on Baltic sea till age 7.

[6] She studied at GITIS (Russian Institute of Theatre Arts) and then moved to the United States in her teens.