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Director, actress, and teacher Ieva Stundžytė not only directs but also actively creates roles in colleagues’ performances, writes plays, and since 2010 teaches at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, she is the associate professor at the Faculty of Theater and Film, Acting and Directing department.
Ieva Stundžytė studied acting at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater: in 2006 obtained a bachelor’s degree, in 2008 – Master’s degree. Later, she started postgraduate studies in directing and, also at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater in 2010 obtained the qualification degree of licentiate of arts. In 2006, together with her study friends and course leader, actor and director Aidus Giniotis founded “Open Circle” theater, and since 2017 began to lead it. Ieva Stundžytė has created seventeen roles in the performances of “Open Circle” and Keistuolių theater; as an actress, she has won two Golden Stage Crosses (2006 and 2007). As a director, I. Stundžytė creates performances in “Open Circle” and Keistuolių theater, in 2022 she has also directed a performance in the State Drama Theater of Šiauliai. She has staged more than twenty performances. Along with world dramaturgy classics and interpretations of contemporary plays, her own play productions hold an important place in her repertoire. I. Stundžytė has written six plays and three stagings.
Ieva Stundžytė is one of the most talented and interesting theater creators of the middle generation, with a long-term experience in acting, directing, teaching, and experimental laboratory creative work.