Eimuntas Nekrošius

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Eimuntas Nekrošius (born on November 21, 1952 in Pažobris village, Raseiniai district municipality) is one of the most famous theatre directors in Lithuania.

[edit] Career

In 1978 he graduated from Lunacharsky Theater Art Institute in Moscow. He worked in Vilnius State Youth Theatre from 1978 until 1979, and in Kaunas Drama Theatre from 1979 until 1980; in 1980, he returned to the Vilnius State Youth Theatre, where he staged several plays including:

The Square (1981),
rock opera Love and Death in Verona by Sigitas Geda and K. Antanėlis’ (1982, renewed in 1996),
Chinghiz Aitmatov’s The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (1983),
Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (1986),
Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose (1991).

All productions by Nekrošius were awarded diplomas of various theatre festivals in Lithuania, the Baltic States, and other countries. Nekrošius is a laureate of numerous state awards. In 1994 Nekrošius received a special prize of Lithuanian Theatre Union as the Best Director of the Year, and an award of the Baltic Assembly for Aleksandr Pushkin’s Little Tragedies (Mozart and Salieri. Don Juan. Plague) as the best theatre performance in the Baltic States.

In 1997, Nekrošius produced one of his most successful directions – Hamlet by William Shakespeare, starring Lithuanian music idol Andrius Mamontovas, that took part in nearly all main European theatre festivals and received numerous awards. In 2001, Nekrošius received the prestigious international Konstantin Stanislavski’s award in Moscow. In November 2002, he produced Giuseppe Verdi's opera Macbeth at Teatro Comunale Florence.