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Rolandas Atkočiūnas

Director

Rolandas Augustinas Atkočiūnas was born on 16 August 1961, in Kaunas. In 1990, he graduated from Moscow‘s Boris Shchukin Theater Institute. For a few years he worked in Moscow as the director in the Suben Simonov theater and as the art manager in the Otkrovenije theater. In 1992, he founded Kaunas Little Theater (Lith. Kauno Mažasis teatras) and worked as the art manager for two years. In 1994, he worked in Šiauliai Drama theater (director, art manager and theater manager), from 2005 to 2008 he was Liepoja (Latvia) Drama theater director and art manager, and from 2004 to 2008, he worked as the art manager for the John the Baptist festival in Zapyškis.


The Most Important Works in Theatre

2015
Dea Loher Clara‘s relationship
National Kaunas Drama Theatre
2013
Jez Buterworth Jerusalem
National Kaunas Drama Theatre
2011
Martin McDonagh An Hour of Lights (Lith. Žibintų valanda)
Liepāja Theatre, Latvia
2010
Jānis Lūsens, Egis Zirnis Ceplis
Fine Art Theater, Riga, Latvia
Rudolfs Blaumann In the Fire
Liepāja Theatre, Latvia
Mikhail Bulgakov Code of Versailles (Lith. Versalio kodas)
Fine Art Theater, Riga, Latvia
Tonino Guerra The Fourth Chair
State Kaunas Drama Theatre
2009
Nikolai Erdman The Ball Is Over (Lith. Balius baigtas)
Liepāja Theatre, Latvia
Herb Gardner I'm Not Rappaport
Riga Russian Drama Theatre, Latvia
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt Small Marital Crimes
Fine Art Theater, Riga, Latvia
Marc Camoletti Pyjama 6 (Lith. Pižama 6)
Liepāja Theatre, Latvia
Biljana Srbljanovič Locusts
State Kaunas Drama Theatre
2008
Francis Veber The Dinner Game (Lith. Vakarienė su idiotu)
Klaipėda Drama Theatre
Miro Gavran All About Women
Liepāja Theatre, Latvia
Raffy Shart My Wife's Name Is Maurice
Fine Art Theater, Riga, Latvia
Roland Schimmelpfennig Arabian Night (Lith. Arabų naktis)
Liepāja Theatre, Latvia
2007
Miro Gavran All About Men
Liepāja Theatre, Latvia
CV (Curriculum vitae) based on “Uncle Vanya” by Anton Chekhov
Liepāja Theatre, Latvia
2006
Arthur Kopit Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
Liepāja Theatre, Latvia
Roland Schimmelpfennig The Woman Before
Juozas Miltinis' Drama Theatre in Panevėžys
2005
Marc Camoletti Pyjama pour six
Juozas Miltinis' Drama Theatre in Panevėžys
2004
Arthur Miller Witches of Salem
State Kaunas Drama Theatre
2003
Idiot's Mass (Lith. Idioto mišios) based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel “The Idiot”
Theatre projects, Kaunas
Patrick Marber  www.prisilietimas.net
Lithuanian State Youth Theatre
Tom Stoppard The Real Thing
Juozas Miltinis' Drama Theatre
2002
Yves Jamiaque Mesje A.
Klaipėda Drama Theatre
Patrick Süskind The Double Bass (Lith. Kontrabosas)
Kaunas Youth Chamber Theatre
2000
Terence Rattigan The Lady Without Camellias
Šiauliai State Drama Theatre
Anton Chekhov Unfinished Piece (Lith. Nebaigta pjesė)
Klaipėda Drama Theatre
1999
Athol Fugard Dimetos (Lith. Dimetas)
Šiauliai State Drama Theatre
1998
Peter Ustinov Photo Finish
Klaipėda Drama Theatre
1997
Luigi Pirandello Henry IV
Šiauliai State Drama Theatre
Jean-Paul Sartre Behind Closed Doors (Lith. Už uždarų durų)
Klaipėda Drama Theatre
1995
Aleksandr Detkov Eternal Return (Lith. Amžinas sugrįžimas)
Šiauliai State Drama Theatre
Friedrich Dürrenmatt The Fifth Deed of Hercules and Augeus' Stables (Lith. Penktasis Heraklio žygdarbis ir Augėjo tvartai)
Klaipėda Drama Theatre
Kostas Ostrauskas Čičinskas
Šiauliai State Drama Theatre
1994
Athol Fugard People Are Living There
Šiauliai State Drama Theatre
August Strindberg Miss Julie (Lith. Freken Julija)
Kaunas Small Theatre
1993
Samuel Beckett A late night in the future (Lith. Vėlus vakaras ateityje)
Kaunas Small Theatre
1992
Arthur Miller The Price
Šiauliai State Drama Theatre
1991
Tennessee Williams Kingdom of Earth (Lith. Žemiškoji karalystė)
together with Mikhail Yevdokimov, Russian Drama Theatre of Lithuania
1989
Thornton Wilder Our Town
Ruben Simonov Moscow Drama Theater

The Most Important Works in Theatre and Television

2007
TV series Saulius and Jurga (Lith. Saulius ir Jurga)

Awards

2007
The play CV (Curriculum vitae) in Latvia was nominated in five categories of 2007: Best Play of the Year, Best Director, Best Scenography, Best Costumes, Best Leading Role
2002
Monocle International Festival in Saint-Petersburg, the first prize laureate for the play Contrabass
1997
Border International theater festival laureate for the play Behind closed doors
1995
The National Dramaturgy prize for the play Čičinskas

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