Yana Ross is a cosmopolitan director who travels to various theaters. In her work for the theatre, she reworks radical works that are now regarded as classics and reflects them sensitively yet responsibly, using urban narratives and the personal biographies of the actors involved. Taking canonical texts such as Chekhov's "Three Sisters" and "The Seagull", Ibsen's "Nora" or Arthur Schnitzler's "La Ronde", she tied them to their bourgeois core and at the same time shows the surprising relevance of these texts in our day, directly connecting them with Lithuanian language and rituals, adapting them to the specific society for which the texts are staged. She has the honest, distinctive gaze of an outsider who does not belong to any particular community. in 2008 Yana Ross was the first woman to direct a play on the main stage of Berlin's Volksbühne. in 2016 At the Wiener Festwochen, she became known to a wider audience of the theater world by creating a performance based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's Wunschkonzert, in which the famous Polish actress Danuta Stenka, a new member of the Schauspielhaus Zürich troupe, stands quietly on stage for 80 minutes. He worked for a long time in the Lithuanian National Drama Theater. In February 2019, together with Mindaugas Nastaravičius, he staged Ödön von Horváth's "Vienna Forest Tale" at the State Youth Theater. Yana Ross is currently a resident at the Zurich Schauspielhaus and is participating in a three-year international project.