Natalija Vorozjbit

Playwright

Natalya Vorozhbit (born April 4, 1975, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian playwright, screenwriter, and director. She graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow and has studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Vorozhbit is a member of PEN Ukraine and was a Visiting Fellow and Ukrainian Writer in Residence at St Hugh's College, Oxford for the 2023–24 term.

She is the co-founder of the Theatre of the Displaced in Kyiv, a project that provides a platform for refugees from Donbas to share their stories. Vorozhbit also curated the Class Act project, which focuses on youth and community engagement through theatre.

Notable Works:

• Bad Roads (2017): An episodic play depicting the experiences of women during the War in Donbas. The play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London and has been staged internationally, including at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia.

• Green Corridors (2023): A play commissioned by the Münchner Kammerspiele, observing various Ukrainians forced into rushed and unwanted exile by the large-scale Russian invasion of 2022. The play had its Ukrainian premiere in May 2023 at Kyiv's Theater of Playwrights, of which Vorozhbit is a founding member. Wikipedia