Natalya Anatoliyivna Vorozhbyt ( uk, Наталія Анатоліївна Ворожбит}) (born 4 April 1975) is a Ukrainian playwright and screenwriter.

Life

Vorozhbyt graduated in 2000 from the

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. She has also studied at the

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. 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 The Donbas or Donbass (, ; uk, Донба́с ; russian: Донба́сс ) is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine. Parts of the Donbas are controlled by Russian separatist groups as a result of the Russo-Ukrai ...

can tell their stories, and curated the Class Act project. She wrote the screenplay for the feature film ''

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'' 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. She took part in the 2013

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protests. During this time she also collected inspiration for new work. She has previously collaborated with the

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and

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. In February 2022, Vorozhbyt was working on her latest film 'Demons' in

Myrhorod Myrhorod ( uk, Ми́ргород, ) is a city in the Poltava Oblast (province) of central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Myrhorod Raion (district), the city itself is administratively incorporated as a city of oblast s ...

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

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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.

Works

* ''The Khomenko Family Chronicles,'' 2006.

* ''The Grain Store'', 2009, * ''Bad Roads'', 2017. * ''My Mykolaivka'', 2017 *''Blood Sisters'', 2019 *'' Bad Roads'', 2020

References

External links

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''SEGAL TALKS: Natalia Vorozhbit''
12 May 2020 1975 births Living people Ukrainian screenwriters Maxim Gorky Literature Institute alumni Laureates of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize {{Ukraine-writer-stub