Natalia Anatoliivna Vorozhbyt is a Ukrainian writer, playwright, director, curator, screenwriter and actress in the direction of “new drama”.
Place of Birth, Education
She was born on April 4, 1975 in the city of Kyiv.
In 2000, she completed her studies at the Gorky Literary Institute.
Career
Vorozhbyt at the beginning of her career wrote the script for the Russian TV series “School”. However, in 2013, she stopped cooperating with television, explaining this by dissatisfaction with the simplifications of her own scripts.
She also worked as the editor-in-chief of the STB TV channel.
Together with the German director Georg Geno, she founded the “Theater of the Settler”. As part of the project, IDPs from Donbas tell real stories from their lives.
She is also the curator of the festivals “Doncult” and “GOGOLFEST” and co-founder of the festival “Week of Actual Play”.
Vorozhbyt’s plays were staged on the theater stages of Ukraine and abroad. In Ukraine, her texts were staged in the Wild Theater, in the Kyiv Young Theater and the Drama and Comedy Theater on the left bank of the Dnieper, in the Chernihiv Regional Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Taras Shevchenko. In addition, productions were staged in theaters in Russia, Great Britain, Poland, the United States of America (USA) and Latvia.
In June 2018, Vorozhbyt, during the screening of the film “Cyborgs” in Canada, expressed support for Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who was imprisoned in Russia at that time. In addition, she joined an open appeal by cultural figures, politicians and human rights activists calling on world leaders to stand up for Sentsov and other Ukrainian political prisoners.
Awards
In 2004, Vorozhbyt was awarded the Eureka Literary Award for the play “Jackdaw Motalko”, and in 2020 she received 2 awards for the film “Bad Roads” – the Verona Film Club Prize and the “Kinokolo Discovery of the Year” Award.
In 2021, she was awarded the Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize of Ukraine for her outstanding contribution to the development of Ukrainian cinema.
The following year, she was awarded the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine for the play “Bad Roads”, staged at the Kyiv Academic Drama and Comedy Theater on the left bank of the Dnieper.
Marital Status
She was married to playwright Maxim Kurochkin.
