Gytis Ivanauskas

  • Height: 174cm / 5'8"
  • Weight: 58kg / 127.87 lb
  • Acting age: 35-45
  • Shoes: 41
  • Clothes:48
  • Hair: Blond(e)
  • Eyes: Blue

Languages:

  • Lithuanian*
  • English
  • Russian

 Gytis Ivanauskas is an Eastern European actor and dancer born on June the 1st in 1980 in Ukmerge, Lithuania. He studied arts at M. K. Ciurlionis art high school and in 1999 was admitted to the faculty of Theatre and Cinema at the Lithuanian Music Academy. In 2004 finished studies for the Master’s degree as a dancing actor.

Gytis Ivanauskas entered the professional stage in year 2000, where he played the teenager Kurt in M. von Mayenburg play “Fireface” which was directed by Oskaras Korsunovas. Biggest roles that made him famous are Romeo in “Romeo and Juliet” by W. Shakespeare (director Oskaras Korsunovas) and Raskolnikov in “Crime and Punishment” by F.Dostojevskij (director Gintaras Varnas).

G. Ivanauskas also takes part in various dance projects, created scenography for his one-man show “Lighthouse” (director Gintaras Varnas). In 2005 he established his own “Gytis Ivanauskas theatre” where directed a dance show “Hallmark”, “Men in White Skirts” and “I Love You So Much”.

In 2005 he got the Lithuanian theatre union “Fortune” prize for Raskolnikov in “Crime and Punishment” and was nominated for the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture prize “The golden stage cross” for Raskolnikov in “Crime and punishment” and Boy in “Lighthouse”.

In 2006 became a laureate of National Debut Premium for young artists awarded by Lithuanian Ministry of Culture. On the 6th of April, 2007 Gytis Ivanauskas was awarded the national status of art creator.