Gytis Bernardas Padegimas was born in Kaunas on the 17th of February, 1952. In 1975 he graduated from the theatre direction studies at A. Lunacharsky Theatre Art Institute in Moscow. In 1975–80 he worked as an artistic director at Vilnius Youth Theatre, between 1980–86 – as an artistic director at Kaunas Drama Theatre, in 1988–93 – principal artistic director of Šiauliai Drama Theatre. In 1993–99 he worked as the General Manager of Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre. G.Padegimas was a lecturer at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, in Denmark, at Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University. Presently he is a lecturer of Klaipėda University.
Directed performances:
1973 Mikki Mikiveri. "Carlson is Joking Again" (Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
1974 M.Baidžijevas. "Festival in Every Home" (Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
1975 Anton Chechov. "Forced Tragic Hero" (Lithuanian State Youth Theatre)
1976 Federico García Lorca. "Dona Rosita, the Spinster" (Šiauliai Drama Theatre)
1976 Vladimir Tendriakov. "The Night after the Parting Feast" (Lithuanian State Youth Theatre)
1977 August Strindberg. "Miss Julie" (Šiauliai Drama Theatre)
1977 A. Sergejev. "In Poplars' Blossom" (Klaipėda Drama Theatre)
1977 According to Jean Cocteau, Oskaras Milošas. "The Human Voice" (Lithuanian State Youth Theatre)
1978 Violeta Palčinskaitė. "Andrius" (Lithuanian State Youth Theatre)
1979 Žemaitė. "Three Beloved" (Lithuanian State Youth Theatre)
1980 Juozas Grušas. "The Amber Villa" (Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
1980 Janis Jurkanis. "Cuckoo Clock" (Lithuanian State Youth Theatre)
1981 August Strindberg. "Creditors" (Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
1981 Aivaras Mockus. Gytis Padegimas. "Dwarf Nose" (with Dalia Tamulevičiūtė, Lithuanian State Youth Theatre)
1982 Violeta Palčinskaitė. "Christian Andersen’s Rose" (Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
1982 Thornton Wilder. "Our Town" (Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
1983 Juozas Grušas. "The Sauna" (Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
1984 Mikola Kulísh. "The Way of Guska's Loss" (Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
1984 Ema Mikulėnaitė. "Always the Same" (Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
1985 John Boynton Priestley. "Time and the Conways" (Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
1985 Nikolaj Gogol. "The Madman’s Diary" (Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
1986 August Strindberg. "To Damascus" (Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
1986 Alfred de Musset. "Caprices of Mariana" (Šiauliai Drama Theatre)
1986 Harold Pinter. "The Old Times" (Lithuanian State Youth Theatre)
1986 Vidmantė Jasiukaitytė. "Žemaitė" (Šiauliai Drama Theatre)
1987 Jurga Ivanauskaitė. "Don’t Play with the Moon" (Lithuanian State Academic Drama Theatre)
1987 Vidmantė Jasiukaitytė. "The Hunt of Wolves" (Lithuanian State Academic Drama Theatre)
1988 Vidmantė Jasiukaitytė. "Žilvinas" (Šiauliai Drama Theatre)
1988 Antanas Škėma. "Candlestick" (Šiauliai Drama Theatre)
1989 Eugene O’Neill. "Long Day's Journey into Night" (Lithuanian State Academic Drama Theatre)
1989 Albert Camus. "Caligula" (theatre Elisabethbuhne, Salzburg, Austria)
1989 Antanas Škėma. "During One Evening" (Šiauliai Drama Theatre)
1990 Federiko García Lorca. "Yerma" (theatre Elisabethbuhne, Salzburg, Austria)
1991 Thornton Wilder. "Long Christmas Dinner" (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
1991 Oskaras Milašius. "Mephiboseth" (Šiauliai Drama Theatre)
1991 Friedrich Dürrenmatt. "Romulus the Great" (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
1992 Federiko García Lorca. "Yerma" (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
1992 August Strindberg. "The Strongest" (Lithuania-Sweden)
1993 George Bernard Shaw. "The Heartbreak House" (Šiauliai Drama Theatre)
1993 Kazys Saja. "By the Lift To the Pyramid" (Šiauliai Drama Theatre)
1993 Thornton Wilder. "By the Skin of our Teeth" (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
1993 John Cromwell. "Premiere" (Šiauliai Drama Theatre)
1994 Vanda Juknaitė. "Clerk of Vainutas" (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
1995 Jerome Kilty. "Dear Liar" (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
1995 William Shakespeare. "Love Labour's Lost" (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
1996 Markas Zingeris. "Round the Fountain, or Little Paris" (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
1996 John Cromwell. "Premiere" (Klaipėda Drama Theatre)
1997 James Goldman. "The Lion in Winter" (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
1997 according to Fyodor Dostoyevsky. "Crime and Punishment" (theatre Rogaland, Stavanger, Norway)
1997 Peter Hacks. "The Air-pocket" (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
1998 Lesia Ukrainka, Antanas Jasenka. "The Forest Song" (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre, Yard of Small Stages Complex)
1998 August Strindberg. "The Ghost Sonata" (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
1999 Thornton Wilder. "Pullman Car Hiawatha" (Klaipėda Drama Theatre)
1999 William Butler. "The Words upon the Window Pane" (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
2000 According to Thomas Mann. "The Great Joke" (Nida festival of Thom Mann)
2000 Henrik Ibsen. "Little Eyolf" (Juozas Miltinis Drama Theatre)
2000 Terrence McNally. "Master Class" (Theatre Džiugena)
2000 Christo Boichev. "The Colonel Bird" (Juozas Miltinis Drama Theatre)
2001 Vanda Juknaitė. "Formula" (Lithuanian National Drama Theatre)
2001 Vanda Juknaitė. "Formula" (theatre Skatuve, Riga, Latvia)
2001 Martin McDonagh. "The Beauty Queen of Leenein" (Klaipėda Drama Theatre)
2001 Brian Friel. "Dance of Lugnaza" (Lithuanian National Drama Theatre)
2002 "Poet’s Garden" (performance – live picture, Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum)
2003 Giedrius Kuprevičius. Herkus Kunčius. "Kipras, Fyodor and Others" (Kaunas State Musical Theatre)
2003 Vladimir Malyagin. "The Justice of Humanity" (Danish and Russian Theatre Dialog, Copenhagen, Denmark)
2004 Giedrius Kuprevičius. "Battue of Fire". Vilnius. Joint project.
2004 Tennessee Williams. "The Night of Iguana" (diploma performance of the international actors’ course, GITIS SCANDINAVIA, Denmark)
2006 Justinas Marcinkevičius. "Mindaugas" (Trakai Castle)
2006 Juozas Glinskis. "Children of One Father" (Lithuanian National Drama Theatre)
2007 Maria Lado. "Very Common Story" (Šiauliai Drama Theatre)
2007 Zita Bružaitė, Ramutė Skučaitė. "The Mermaid" (according to a short story of Friedrich de la Motte Fouque) (Kaunas Castle)
2008 Marina Carr. "The Mai" (Klaipėda Drama Theatre)
2008 Giedrius Kuprevičius, Herkus Kunčius. "Daligala" (opera-zarzuela, Vilnius St. Catherine Church)
2008 Vladimir Konstantinov. "Whatever Grandpa Does Will Turn Out Fine" (opera for the entire family according to the play of Sigitas Geda on the motifs of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale, Klaipėda Musical Theatre)
2008 Giedrius Kuprevičius, Saulius Šaltenis, Leonidas Jacinevičius. "Battue of Fire" (Vilnius Domino Theatre)
2008 Algirdas Landsbergis. "Children in Palace of Amber" (Klaipėda University, Art Faculty, Department of Direction)
2009 August Strindberg. "Easter" (artist Birutė Ukrinaitė, composer Gintaras Kizevičius), Šiauliai Drama Theatre
2009 Claude Debussy, Maurice Maeterlinck. "Pelleas et Melisande" (artist Birutė Ukrinaitė), Klaipėda Musical Theatre
2009 Liucija Armonaitė. "Bona Sforca. Farewell" (Composer Gintaras Kizevičius, set designer Skaidra Žeižytė, costume designer Jūratė Maurušaitienė), Kaunas Artists’ House
2010 Jonas Tamulionis. Opera for children "The Tiny Lingonberry" (libretto by Milda Brėdikytė after Martynas Vainilaitis fairy-tale; designer Birutė Ukrinaitė, choreographer Agnija Šeiko), Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre
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