Director: Saulė Norkutė; sound director and engineer: Vladas Dieninis. The play was awarded a 2nd place at the National Dramaturgy Competition Kviečia radijo teatras (Lithuania). Awards In 2012, together with other two co-creators of the opera Have a Good Day!, Grainytė received an award at the Music Theatre NOW, a competition organised by the International Theatre Institute. The opera Have a Good Day! was shown in a series of international festivals of music, theatre and opera around the world, including Golden Mask (Moscow), Shanghai International Theatre Festival, Prototype Annual Festival of Opera-Theatre and Music-Theatre (New York), as well as Automne En Normandie, NEXT – La Rose Des Vents, Le Bateau Feu, Passages, Horizon, EXIT and Théâtre en Mai festivals in France. The opera was also featured in various theatre festivals in (Germany), Switzerland, Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine. The opera was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (UK) and LRT (Lithuania). The works have been co-produced by institutions such as Kammerspiele in Munich and Dresden State Theatre ( (Germany)). In 2012 Grainytė’s book Beijing Diaries was nominated for the Lithuanian Book of the Year category and made it to the list of 12 Most Creative Books. In 2013 the book received The Augustinas Gricius Award. In 2014 all three co-authors were nominated for the Best Lithuanian Production category and received the Golden Cross of the Stage Award. The same year Grainytė, Lapelytė, and Barzdžiukaitė took part at the Baltic Theatres Festival (Latvia) and received two Competition Programme Awards for the "sensitivity toward the social reality" and "dramaturgy". In 2015 Grainytė received the Young Artist Award (Lithuania) and the Main Prize at Fast Forward the European Festival for New Directors (Braunschweig, (Germany)). In 2018, together with Lapelytė and Barzdžiukaitė, Grainytė received the Borisas Dauguvietis Earring Award for the innovative and original approaches. In 2019, the opera-performance Sun & Sea (Marina) (co-authors: Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė and Lina Lapelytė) won Lithuania the Golden Lion for the best national participation at the 58th Venice Biennale. References 1984 births Venice Biennale Lithuanian women artists Lithuanian women poets Lithuanian women writers 21st-century Lithuanian women 21st-century Lithuanian writers Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre alumni Living people