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Ruta Jonikaite

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Born on 12 July 2000 in Kaunas, Lithuania. I perform roles in various Lithuanian theatres (Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, National Kaunas Drama Theatre, Youth Theatre, Kaunas City Chamber Theatre) as well as performed in theatres in Venice, Spoleto, Italy, in Hamburg, Germany as well as Warsaw, Poland. Since 2024 been an actress at the State Youth Theatre. In 2025, nominated for the „Golden Stage Cross” for Best Young Artist in Lithuania, for the role of Esther in "Victor, or Power to the Children"
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My Experiences

CLOSE (2025 - 2025)

Role: Beloved no. 2.

Theatre
Kaunas City Chamber Theatre

“Close” is a masquerade of desire, identity and the search for love, in which four young women try on different social and cultural masks. In absurd and complex situations, they navigate between self-expression and societal expectations, embodying the fluidity of love in the contemporary world.

CHROME (2025 - 2025)

Role: Nymph

Theatre
State Youth Theatre, MMLAB

“Chrome” is a story about the limits of language, image, and the human desire for beauty. The play explores the relationship between an ageing writer who has lost faith in the power of language and a young man who is the unattainable embodiment of beauty.

NIGHT SCREENING (2025 - 2025)

Role: Lisa

Film
Film Jam Productions.

Watchmaker stumbles into a mysterious cinema and is enraptured by the sight of movie star Lisa sleeping on the screen. His life changes. A girl he meets in the cinema begins leading him through the strange world of cinematic dreams.

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SHOPPING & F**KING (2025 - 2025)

Role: Lulu

Theatre
State Youth Theatre.

Is there any more room for true feelings in today's society? It is a story about our generation - addicted and playing, lost and sensitive, traumatised and looking for their place, friendship, human closeness in the hypocritical consumer society of our times, where one can only survive with a dose of good humour...

DANGEROUS LIAISONS (2024 - 2024)

Role: Cécile de volanges.

Theatre
National Kaunas Drama Theatre.

Charming and charismatic French aristocrats play endless intrigues and play other people's fates like cards to enliven their boring existence. The play is a story of passion, betrayal, hypocrisy, moral decay and depravity

THE BARBARIANS (2024 - 2024)

Role: Young pianist

Theatre
State Youth Theatre.

It tells the story of the Judge, an anonymous high-ranking civil servant of the Empire. The play seems to measure the limits of humanity and asks who are the real barbarians: the nomadic farmers, fishermen and craftsmen who are mercilessly persecuted and tortured by the local steppe inhabitants, or the ordinary townspeople and the imperial army that protects them?

TOWER OF BABEL (2024 - 2024)

Role: Vilka

Theatre
National Kaunas Drama Theatre. 2024

The world after climate catastrophe. Only a few small tribes of people remain, scattered around the world. Each tribe has its own language and customs. They behave like animals, foraging for food and trying to survive in a world devastated by apocalypse. What will happen if these tribes meet?

VICTOR, OR POWER TO THE CHILDREN (2024 - 2024)

Role: Esther

Theatre
Lithuanian National Drama Theatre.

It is a witty satirical parable from the 1930s about two familes and the false and hypocritical, cowardly and bourgeois world of "welfare" created by parents, which is gleefully subverted by rebellious little anarchists, nihilists, and rowdy children. For this role, in 2025, she was nominated for the „Golden Stage Cross” for Best Young Artist in Lithuania, for the role of Esther in "Victor, or Power to the Children"

THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN (2024 - 2024)

Role: Marusia

Theatre
State Youth Theatre.

The Magic Mountain is a journey into the unknown. Each individual character is like a paintbrush. On stage, three paintbrushes are painted and seventeen are waiting for their turn... This play was performed in Salzburg, Austria, Warsaw, Poland as well as continiously performed in Vilnius, Lithuania.

KARTOTEKA (2024 - 2024)

Role: German girl

Theatre
National Kaunas Drama Theatre.

The drama is set in the protagonist's room, and the protagonist spends time in bed. His home is no longer a safe haven, anyone can enter it without knocking, it resembles a street where different people go about their business.

DUST (2023 - 2023)

Role: Ane

Theatre
State Youth Theatre

The main question that this performance reflects on is how can a 21st century person, who has not encountered the horrors of the Holocaust directly or through the stories of a living person, grasp the emotion of this tragedy? How to feel empathy when the written memories of the Holocaust can remind a contemporary person of the world of fiction?

GHETTO (2023 - 2025)

Role: Ghetto prisoner, actress.

Theatre
National Kaunas Drama Theatre.

It is the story of jews, who were im- prisoned in the Vilnius ghetto, found a unique phenomenon - the ghetto the- atre, which in the face of death be- came a source of spiritual strength and resistance for Jews, the only way to feel human. The play is about choices, actions and their conse- quences: to establish a theatre or not, to participate in the shooting of Jews or not?

A BRAVE NEW WORLD (2023 - 2025)

Role: Student, sarojini angels

Theatre
State Youth Theatre.

Huxley's dystopia poses a frightening dilemma between happiness and freedom. And if so, what kind of person between the two choices - happiness or freedom - will choose the latter? We are not that far away from the terrifying 'Brave New World. We are not so far from the terrifying “Brave New World.”

ERINYES (2023 - 2025)

Role: Waitress, jewess, peasant.

Theatre
State Youth Theatre.

The questions raised in the novel are much broader than the novel itself, the field of literary or historical research. How can you bear witness to events in which you are not present? How can the memory of the Holo- caust be preserved and activated to- day, when there are hardly any people left who have experienced or wit- nessed the atrocities?”

CLEANSED (2023 - 2023)

Role: Grace

Theatre
Art Printing House.

British playwright Sarah Kane, who wrote ”Cleansed”, was attacked by almost the entire British media after its first premiere, when asked why she writes such violent plays, the playwright was not fazed in the slightest: "I don't write violent plays - I just try to be as honest as possible." So the play uses violent, liminal places (a psychiatric hospital) and situations to bring out what is most sincere, most sensitive, most human, and to ask what true love is, how much it can bear, and where its limits are.”