Yana Ross
Yana Ross is a Latvian-born American director. She obtained her Master of Fine Arts degree at the Yale School of Drama in 2006.
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, Finnish National Theater, Barka Theater, Uppsala Stadsteater, Laźnia Nowa and TR Warszawa and Reykjavik City Theater. Ross is a Fulbright Fellowship recipient. She received the John Gassner Memorial prize for her work on Russian Theater of the 21st Century, a special project in her role as managing editor at Yale Theater magazine. She has received Best Director awards in Sweden, Poland and Lithuania and her work is currently touring to Vienna, New York and China. She is a resident director at the National Theater, Lithuania.Theater
