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Director

Yana, our inspiring director, comes from Kharkiv.

Between 2011 and 2016, she studied at the Kharkiv Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts, where she obtained the qualification of Puppet Theatre Director. From 2015 to 2018, she worked at the Kharkiv Regional Children and Youth Creative Centre as the manager of the Zhyly-Buly Puppet Theatre Model Performance Ensemble. She started her career as a director with the Lviv Puppet Theatre in 2017. She also teaches acting at Lviv Franko National University.

Young and talented, she has a great record of acclaimed productions in her creative portfolio:

In 2016, Yana staged the play Physical-Hello at the Chernihiv Dovzhenko Regional Puppet Theatre;

In 2017, she produced Festive Dreams for the Lviv Academic Regional Puppet Theatre (playwright Marta Huryn, designer Ulyana Kulchytska (2017));

In 2018, her new work – Alice in the Wonderland – premiered at the Mykolaiv Academic Regional Puppet Theatre.

In addition, Yana has participated in a number of international theatre festivals:

7^th International Festival of Puppetry Schools Puppet-No-Puppet (Białystok, Poland, 2014)

Theatre of the Future – International Festival of Theatre Art (Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2016)

2^nd International Festival of Student Theatres May 32 (Saratov, Russia, 2016)

29^th International Theatre Festival VALISE (Łomża, Poland, 2016)

International Arts Festival Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk, specifically, the Puppet Quarter project (Vitebsk, Belarus, 2017)

4^th International Festival of Puppet Theatres People, and Puppets (Lviv, Ukraine, 2018)

Yana also participated in the ArtTYUZarT, a Kharkiv-based arts festival (2015), and I and Sela Brook Theatre Fresh Festival in Kharkiv (2015).

She presented the play Festive Dreams at the Biennale of Stage Design (Tbilisi, Georgia, 2018)