Skorik Karmella (5 October 1934, Riga — 10 December 2004, Riga) — public figure, teacher.

From 1941 to 1945, Karmella Skorik was in evacuation in Frunze. After returning to Riga, she studied at the ballet school and danced at the Riga Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 1956, she graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Latvian University.

From 1956 to 1957, she worked as an actress at the Arzamas Regional Drama Theatre, and from 1957 at the Moscow Regional Drama Theatre. In 1959, she returned to Riga, where she worked at the Riga Film Studio as an assistant to the director Pavel Armand. She completed the Higher Directing Courses in Moscow.

In 1963, Karmella Skorik founded the amateur theatre “Ekho” under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Latvian SSR. In 1976, at the “Friendship Stage” festival in Tallinn, the theatre’s production “Forget Herostratus” won first place. During her work in the theatre, she staged productions such as “Mother’s Field”, “Do Not Shoot at White Swans”, “Police Commissioner”, and others.

In 1978, the Riga Operetta Theatre staged “What Has the Briefcase Got to Do with It?” (libretto by Skorik in collaboration with G.Skorik). In 1987, she began working at the Riga Variety and Concert Association, where she directed variety programmes.

In 1990, the children’s theatre “Teremok” was established under the Latvian Philharmonic, and she became its director. The same year, she was invited to work in the Riga Jewish community. In August 1991, she was the organiser of the world’s first festival of Jewish art, which featured groups from Denmark, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Lithuania, and other countries.

She founded the children’s theatre “Chiri-biri-bom” within the Latvian Jewish community, as well as the adult amateur theatre “Ufkum”. At the “Ufkum” theatre, the production “Sholom Aleichem” featured well-known Latvian actors such as M. Lebedev, T. Rossiyskaya, N. Shcheglova, L. Shevchenko, as well as actors from the Riga Operetta Theatre.

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