Vanemuine

Riho Kütsar
Drama Actor

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RIHO KÜTSAR

In Theatre Vanemuine since 1994

Date and Place of Birth:

May 28, 1970 in Viljandi

Education:

- in 1994 graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre Drama School (graduating class of 16)

Career:

- since 1994 Theatre Vanemuine, drama actor

Current roles in Vanemuine:

- Chuck – Edward Albee "Everything in the Garden" (2006)
- Elling – Axel Hellstenius, Ingvar Ambjørnsen "Elling og Kjell Bjarne" (2006)
- Ripa Rinne – Reko Lundan "With No Greater Sadness" (2007)
- Inspector Egan – Edward Taylor "Murder By Misadventure" (2007)
- Eduard Michelson – Loone Ots "Koidula's Blood" (2008)
- Hindley Earnshaw – Emily Jane Bronte "Wuthering Heights" (2008)
- Joe – Billy Roche "Poor Beast In The Rain" (2008)

Earlier roles in Vanemuine:

- Vanapagan/Old Nick – August Kitzberg "Kaval-Ants ja Vanapagan" / "Clever-Ants and Old Nick" (1994)
- Earl of Kent – William Shakespeare "King Lear" (1994)
- Paap – Bernard Kangro "Susi" / "Wolf" (1995)
- Ludibras – Dunsay "Gods' Laughter" (1996)
- Bertram – Giraudoux "Ondine" (1996)
- Laertes – William Shakespeare, Mati Unt "The Tragedy of Hamlet" (1997)
- Antonio – William Shakespeare "Twelfth Night or What You Will"
- Madis – Madis Kõiv "Omavahelisi jutuajamisi tädi Elliga" / "Private Conversations With Aunt Elli"
- Nikolai Rostov – Lev Tolstoi "War and Peace"
- Killer Joe – Letts "Killer Joe"
- Henryk – Gombrowicz "The Wedding"
- Ivan Bezdomnõi – Mihhail Bulgakov "Master and Margarita"
- Sammy – Russell "Blood Brothers"
- Trofimov – Anton Chekhov "The Cherry Orchard"
- Teiresias – Mati Unt "Vend Antigone, ema Oidipus" / "Brother Antigone, Mother Oidipus"
- Mark Styler – Horowitz "Mindgame"
- Jõnn – Juhan Smuul "Kihnu Jõnn"
- Urjadnik – Bock "Fiddler on the Roof"
- Chief Bromden – Wasserman "Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
- Enn – Eduard Vilde "Vigased pruudid" / "Deffective Brides"
- John Proctor – Arthur Miller "The Crucible"
- Mulo Partanen – Maiju Lassila "Borrowing Matches"
- Taarka's Brother, Villem Ernits – Kauksi Ülle "Taarka" (2005)
- Kaarel – Andrus Kivirähk "Theatre Paradise" (2006)
- Journalist Loots – Vaino Vahing "Potteri lõpp" / "The End of Potter" (2002)
- Oskar – Andrus Kivirähk "Lotte reis lõunamaale" / "Lotte's Trip to the South" (2005)
- Jose Arcadio Buendia – Toomas Hussar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez "One Hundred Years..." (2006)
- Police Inspector Bone, Bishop – Tom Stoppard "Jumpers" (2007)

Earlier roles elsewhere:

- Toomey – Neil Simon "Biloxi Blues" (diploma production in Estonian Drama Theatre in 1992)
- Arnold – Madis Kõiv, Aivo Lõhmus "Põud ja vihm Põlva kihelkonnan nelätõistkümnendäma aasta suvõl" / "Draught and Rain in Põlva Parish in the Summer of the Fourteenth Year" (diploma production in 1993)
- Little John – Pyle "Robin Hood" (in Emajõe Summer Theatre in 1997)

Movies, tv-productions, radio dramas:

- played in the tv-production "Üks gallon bensiini" / "One Gallon of Gas" (1995)
- played in short movies "Majakas" / "Lighthouse" and "Kurat tuleb sauna" / "The Devil Comes to Sauna"
- played in the tv-serial "Kodu keset linna" / "Home in the City" and "Tuulepealne maa" / "Windward Land" (2008)

Recognition:

- 2004 Ants Lauter Award
- in 2005 he was elected the Colleague of the Year