Nataliia Vorozhbyt

Nataliia Vorozhbyt (Ukrainian: Наталія Анатоліївна Ворожбит, romanized: Nataliia Anatoliyivna Vorozhbyt) (born 4 April 1975) is a Ukrainian playwright and screenwriter.[1]

Life

She graduated in 2000 from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. She studied at the International Writers Program.[2][3]

She writes her scripts in both Russian and Ukrainian.

Together with the German director Georg Zheno she founded the Theater of the Displaced, where refugees from Donbas can tell their stories.[4] She wrote the screenplay for the feature film Cyborgs about the defense of Sergei Prokoviev airport near Donetsk, where Ukrainian soldiers fought for 242 days against separatists. Vorozhbyt traveled through a war zone for four months and spoke with those involved.  The war situation in Ukraine is a frequently recurring theme in Vorozhbyt's work.

She took part in the protests in the 2013 Euromaidan.[5] During this time she also collected inspiration for new work. She collaborated with the Royal Shakespeare Company.[6]

Works
  • The Grain Store 2009, ISBN 9781848420458[7][6]
  • Bad Roads, 2017. ISBN 9781848427143[8][9]
  • ‘My Mykolaivka 2017[4]
  • Blood Sisters 2019
  • Bad Roads (2020)

References
  1. Vorozhbit, Natal'ya (2014-02-24). "Natal'ya Vorozhbit's play for Ukraine: 'We want to build a new and just society'". the Guardian. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
  2. "Natalia Vorozhbyt". Natalia Vorozhbyt | Gorki. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
  3. "Natalya VOROZHBIT | The International Writing Program". iwp.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
  4. kuzn17 (2017-03-14). "Can Theatre Help Restore Relationships in Wartime: Talk with Natalya Vorozhbyt and Samir Puri". Ukraine’s Hidden Tragedy. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
  5. "Natalya Vorozhbit Writes Verbatim 'Maidan' Play". The Theatre Times. 2014-05-27. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
  6. Beumers, Birgit; Lipovetsky, Mark (2009-01-01). Performing Violence: Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama. Intellect Books. ISBN 978-1-84150-346-2.
  7. Vorozhbit, Natalʹi︠a︡ (2009). The Grain Store. Nick Hern Books. ISBN 978-1-84842-045-8.
  8. "Natalya Vorozhbit • Director of Bad Roads". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
  9. "Film critic: 'Bad Roads' is most humane look at war in Ukraine | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice". KyivPost. 2020-11-05. Retrieved 2021-02-28.


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