CV

COSTUME & SET DESIGNER

Ugnė Tamuliūnaitė
(born 1988)
Based in Paris, France

EDUCATION

  • 2013 – 2015 MA in Set Design, Vilnius Art Academy 
  • 2009 – 2013 BA in Set Design, Vilnius Art Academy / Bachelor studies in Vilnius Art Academy (scenography, costume design)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Assistant costume designer 

  • Giulio Cesare in Egitto (opera) staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov,
    Assistant costume designer, The Salzburg Festival, premiere July 2025
  • Khovanshchina (opera) staged by Simon McBurney,
    Assistant costume designer, The Salzburg Easter Festival 2025
  • The Gambler (opera) staged by Peter Sellars
    Assistant costume designer, Salzburger Festspiele, 2024
  • Le Nozze di Figaro (opera) staged by Martin Kušej
    Assistant costume designer, Salzburger Festspiele, 2023
  • Aida (opera) staged by Shirin Neshat
    Assistant costume designer, Salzburger Festspiele, 2022
  • Der Rosenkavalier (opera) staged by director Damiano Michieletto.
    Assistant costume designer to Agostino Cavalca in Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, 2021.
  • Giselle (ballet) staged by choreographer Lola de Avila.
    Assistant costume designer to Soledad Seseña in Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, 2020.
  • Forever and a Day (opera – ballet) staged by director and choreographer Itzik Galili.
    Assistant costume designer to Itzik Galili in Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, 2019.
  • Turandot (opera) staged by director Robert Wilson.
    Assistant for costumes in Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, 2019.
  • Bluebeard’s Castle & The Miraculous Mandarin (opera & ballet) – staged by director Csaba Káel, choregrapher Krzysztof Pastor.
    Assistant costume designer to Tatyana van Walsum in Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, 2018
  • Le Corsaire (ballet) staged by choreographer Manuel Legris.
    Assistant to set and costume designer Luisa Spinatelli in Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, 2018.
  • Don Carlos (opera) staged by Günter Krämer.
    Assistant costume designer to Ines Isabelle Glathar in Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, 2015.

Leading costume / set designer:

  • Forefather’s Eve based on Adam Mickiewicz play (drama performance) directed by Jakub Skrzywanek, at National Kaunas Drama Theatre, 2025 November
  • Macbeth (drama performance), directed by Alexandr Špilevoj at Juozas Miltinis Drama Theatre, 2024 – nomination for award
  • Kai mes būsime jauni (When we will be young), directed by Alexandr Špilevoj at National Kaunas Drama Theatre, 2023
  • Jonah (drama performance), directed by Alexandr Špilevoj at Juozas Miltinis Drama Theatre, 2023
  • The Sound and The Fury (drama performance), directed by Isabel Rodrigues Costa, 2023 in Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisbon
  • The Island that Never Existed (drama performance) staged by Aleksandr Špilevoj at Juozas Miltinis Drama Theatre, 2022
  • Titus based onn Shakespeare’s ‘Titus Andronicus’ (drama performance) staged by Gildas Aleksa
    Costume and set designer at Arts Printing House, Vilnius 2022.
  • St. Frost (Original title:  Šv. Speigas) (drama performance) staged by Aleksandr Špilevoj
    Costume and set designer at Juozas Miltinis Drama Theatre, 2022.
  • Coriolanus (drama performance) staged by Paulius Markevičius.
    Costume and set designer at Theatre Meno Fortas, 2021.
  • Sarsuela (operette) staged by Jūratė Sodytė
    Costume designer at Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, 2021.
  • The Maid Turned Mistress Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (operette) staged by Gediminas Šeduikis.
    Costume designer at Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre project ‘Opera on Truck’, 2020.
  • The Mirage (drama performance) staged by Paulius Markevičius.
    Set designer at Theatre Meno Fortas, 2020.
  • Blossom of Her Soul (Ballet performance) staged by Gohar Mkrtchyan,
    Creative Impulse VII project at Lithuanian Opera Ballet Theater, 2018
  • La Piaf (ballet) staged by choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti.
    Costume designer at Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet theatre, 2017.

Awards / Other relevant activities:

  • Nomination for the Golden Stage Cross award (the annual highest award for theatre in Lithuania) for creation of costumes for performance of Macbeth, 2025
  • Art Residency in Paris for theatre makers, October 2022, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
  • International Opera – Europa conference Vilnius, February 2020
    Organizer of the costume exposition, interpreter
  • Internship for costume recreation for opera Turandot (Robert Wilson production) in Dusseldorf costume workshop,
    “DAS GEWAND”, 2019
  • Evaluation Committee Member in the Bachelor’s Degree Program of Stage design at Vilnius Academy of Arts, 2018
  • Participant in the Exhibition of Scenography at The Prague Quadrennial  (PQ’15), June 2015

Computer Skills:

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • CorelDraw
  • Sketch – up
  • V – Ray

Languages:

  • Lithuanian
  • English
  • French