Ugala is a

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

Viljandi Viljandi (, german: Fellin, sv, Fellin) is a town and municipality in southern Estonia with a population of 17,407 in 2019. It is the capital of Viljandi County and is geographically located between two major Estonian cities, Pärnu and Tartu ...

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

. The theatre was founded in 1920 opening on January 10 of that year. The first production was

Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...

's " Salome".

Ugala's Artistic Directors

*1925 - 1926: Andres Särev *1926 – 1928: Eduard Lemberg *1928 – 1932: Alfred Mering *1932 – 1933:

Valter Soosõrv Valter Soosõrv (also Sooserv; 3 April 1903 in Vahastu – 26 June 1969 in Tallinn) is an Estonian actor, director and theatre historian. In 1927 he graduated from the Drama Studio theatre school. 1922-1925 he was a choir singer at Estonia Theatr ...

*1933 – 1934: Karl Merits *1934 – 1936: Alfred Mering *1936 – 1941: Eduard Tinn *1942 – 1943: Jullo Talpsepp *1943 – 1945:

Eero Neemre Eero Neemre (until 1936 Ernst Nüssik; 22 March 1905 Ropka Parish, Tartu County – 28 September 1994 Viljandi) was an Estonian theatre actor and theatre director. In 1926 he graduated from Lulu Kitzberg-Pappel's Theatre School. 1928 he worked at ...

*1945 – 1947: Karl Ader *1947 – 1948:

Enn Toona Enn Toona (13 January 1909 – Väinjärve Parish – 22 March 1973 Tallinn) was an Estonian actor and director. 1934-1935 he studied at Tartu Stage Art Studio ( et, Tartu Näitekunsti Stuudio). 1935–1936 he was an actor at Estonian Drama Theatr ...

*1949 – 1970: Aleks Sats *1970 – 1979: Heino Torga *1979 – 1983:

Jaan Tooming Jaan Tooming (born 28 March 1946 in Tallinn) is an Estonian actor, theatre and film director and writer. In 1968 he graduated from the Tallinn State Conservatory (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre). From 1969 to 2009 he was an actor a ...

*1983 – 1988:

Jaak Allik Jaak Allik (born 6 October 1946) is an Estonian theatre critic, theatre director and politician. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, and was previously the Estonian Minister of Culture 1995–1999 ( et, Eesti kultuuriminister). He w ...

*1989 – 1991:

Kalju Komissarov Kalju Komissarov (8 March 1946 Võru – 6 March 2017) was an Estonian actor, theatre and film director, and theatre pedagogue. In 1968 he graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory. 1968-1974 he worked as a film director at Tallinnfilm. 1974-198 ...

*1991 – 1995:

*1995 – 1998:

Andres Lepik Andres Lepik (born on 27 April 1957 in Haapsalu) is an Estonian actor and theatre director. In 1982 he graduated from the Tallinn State Conservatory's Performing Arts Department. From 1982 until 1994 and from 1995 until 2000, he worked at Ugala Th ...

*1998 – 2000:

Andres Noormets Andres Noormets (born 1 October 1963 in Paide) is an Estonian theatre actor, director and theatre pedagogue. 1988 he graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (''Eesti Muusika- ja Teatriakadeemia'') beg ...

*2000 – 2002:

*2002 - 2003, 2009:

Peeter Tammearu Peeter Tammearu (born 31 July 1964 in Pärnu) is an Estonian actor. In 1986 he graduated from the performing arts department of the Tallinn State Conservatory. 2003–2009 he was the director of Ugala Theater. Since 2014 he is an actor and direc ...

*2002 - 2009: artistic director Peter Tammearu (theater director since 2003) *2009 - 2012: head of the theater and head stage director

Indrek Sammul Indrek Sammul (born 28 January 1972) is an Estonian actor. He has graduated Estonian Academy of Music's Higher Theatre School in 1994 (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (''Eesti Muusika- ...

*2012 - 2013: head of the theater and head stage director *2014 - 2019: theater director and creative director

Ott Aardam Ott Aardam (born 1 July 1980) is an Estonian stage, television, and film actor. Early life Born and raised in Orissaare on the island of Saaremaa, he graduated from primary school in 1995 from Orissaare Gymnasium. In 1998, he graduated from seco ...

*2019 - :

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* Theatres in Estonia 1920 establishments in Estonia Theatres built in the Soviet Union Viljandi {{Europe-theat-struct-stub