Nataliia Vorozhbyt

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Female

Birthday 1975-04-04 (49 years old)

Place of Birth Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR

Also Known As Наталья Ворожбит, Natalia Vorozhbit, Nataliya Vorozhbit, Наталія Ворожбит, Nataliia Vorozhbyt, Natalia Vorozhbyt, Natalka Vorozhbyt, Natalya Vorozhbit, Natalya Vorozhbyt

Nataliia Vorozhbyt

Biography

Nataliia Anatoliivna Vorozhbyt, born 4 April 1975, is a Ukrainian playwright, screenwriter and director. Vorozhbyt prefers to be referred to professionally as Natalka, the diminutive form of her name. Vorozhbyt graduated in 2000 from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. She has also studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop. She was a Visiting Fellow and Ukrainian Writer in Residence at St Hugh's College, Oxford for the 2023-24 term. She was named a member of PEN Ukraine in May 2024. Over the years she has written her scripts in both Russian and Ukrainian. This however increasingly caused her pain. Speaking to a reporter for The Moscow Times in 2014, she said, "In connection with the anti-Russian mood, many of my Ukrainian friends have purposefully switched to Ukrainian exclusively. The pain and hurt and protest that I feel make me want to do the same. I very much feel that moment has arrived. Then I think, damn it, Russian is my language, too. Why should I have to give it up? I love it. I write in it. Protest against myself? I won't do that." However, by the following year she was writing almost exclusively in Ukrainian. Together with German director Georg Genoux she founded the Theater of the Displaced, where refugees from Donbas could tell their stories,and curated the Class Act project. 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.

Known For

Writer

2023
Demons

as Writer

2022
Are You OK?

as Screenplay

2021
Bad Roads

as Screenplay

2021
Bad Roads

as Writer

2020
2018
The Wild Fields

as Screenplay

2017
Cyborgs

as Writer

2012
Steel Butterfly

as Writer

2012
Beautiful Woman

as Writer

2012
Sklifosovsky

as Writer

2010
Schkola

as Writer

2010
School

as Writer

2005
Adjutants of Love

as Script Editor

Director

2023
Demons

as Director

2022
Are You OK?

as Director

2021
Bad Roads

as Director

Creator

2020