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

Life

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

She writes her scripts in both Russian and Ukrainian.[4]

Together with the German director Georg Zheno she founded the Theater of the Displaced, where refugees from Donbas can tell their stories,[5] and curated the Class Act project.[6] 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 the war zone for four months and spoke with those involved. The war situation in Ukraine is a frequent theme in her work.[7]

She took part in the 2013 Euromaidan protests.[8] During this time she also collected inspiration for new work. She has previously collaborated with the Royal Court Theatre[9] and Royal Shakespeare Company.[10]

In February 2022, Vorozhbyt was working on her latest film 'Demons' in Myrhorod and had only four days of production to complete; it is about a relationship between a Russian and Ukrainian, reflecting what she called the 'uneasy' international relations between these nations, when the city she was in came under bombardment during the Russian invasion. She was interviewed in a bomb shelter on 25 February 2022, saying that it was 'very important for me to be here' but admitting she may have to leave the country if Russia took over. Her interpretation of these events is that it began thirty years ago when Ukraine was being established as an independent country and allowed the Russian influence in Donbas to grow. She appealed for international community support for Ukraine.[11]

Works[12]

  • The Khomenko Family Chronicles, 2006. Royal Court Theatre[9]
  • The Grain Store, 2009, ISBN 9781848420458[13][10]
  • Bad Roads, 2017. ISBN 9781848427143[14][15]
  • My Mykolaivka, 2017[5]
  • Blood Sisters, 2019
  • Bad Roads, 2020[16]

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. ↑ Birksted-Breen, Noah (2020). The watershed year of 2014: The 'birth' of Ukrainian New Drama. London, New York: Bloomsbury. pp. 124–129, 132–134. ISBN 9781788313506.
  5. 1 2 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ Boroch, Robert; Korzeniowska-Bihun, Anna (March 2021). "Conflict and Performing Arts - Class Art Project - Ukrainian Theater as and Anthropological Defence". Weidza Obronna. 274. doi:10.34752/2021-g274.
  7. ↑ Mintzer, Jordan (2021-11-22). ""You Can Really Begin to Study Both the Origin of Evil and of Goodness": 'THR Presents' Q&A With 'Bad Roads' Director Natalya Vorozhbyt". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  8. ↑ "Natalya Vorozhbit Writes Verbatim 'Maidan' Play". The Theatre Times. 2014-05-27. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
  9. 1 2 "Natalia Vorozhbit". Royal Court. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  10. 1 2 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.
  11. ↑ Kohn, Eric (2022-02-25). "Ukrainian Filmmaker Speaks Out from a Bomb Shelter in Kyiv: 'We Need Your Support'". IndieWire. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  12. ↑ "Natal'ya Vorozhbit". www.dramaonlinelibrary.com. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  13. ↑ Vorozhbit, Natalʹi︠a︡ (2009). The Grain Store. Nick Hern Books. ISBN 978-1-84842-045-8.
  14. ↑ "Natalya Vorozhbit • Director of Bad Roads". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
  15. ↑ "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.
  16. ↑ Vorozhbit, Natalya (2021-05-20), Plokhiye dorogi (Drama), Kristi Films, Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, retrieved 2022-03-07


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