Justina Mykolaitytė

Biography

Justina Mykolaitytė (b. 1994) is a Lithuanian singer, actor, and interdisciplinary artist working across baroque opera, theatre, and performance art. She holds a BA in Photography and Media Art from Vilnius Academy of Arts and an MA in Baroque Opera Singing from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. She has collaborated with directors such as Eglė Švedkauskaitė on Memoirs of a Young Man and Gazing at One Another, and Arturas Bumšteinas on The Urbancic’s Method. Her personal experimental musical performances, Fountain Dreams and Longing, explore intersections of opera and performance art in Lithuania. She has also performed in ensemble projects such as Sports Group (by Gailė Griciūtė, Viktorija Damerell and Gabrielė Labanauskaitė) and the Venice Biennale Golden Lion-winning Sun & Sea (by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė), which have been presented internationally and received critical acclaim.