ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Anastasia (Tasia) Puhach (Тася Пугач) has worked in the Ukrainian film industry for five years. She was the head of the Press Service of the Molodist International Film Festival, worked for the Kharkiv MeetDocs International Film Festival as the Head of Connections Department, and as a member of the Selection Committee and Program Department. She was Program Director of Up Ua Studio’s Kinovernissageproject in Kyiv in 2020-21. From 2015-18 she worked in the Theatre of Displaced Persons founded by Ukrainian playwright Natalia Vorozhbyt, German director Georg Genoux, and Ukrainian psychiatrist Oleksii Karachinskiy. This team created many theatre projects with displaced teenagers and adults from the war territories of Donbas, Donetsk and Luhansk.
She was born in Donetsk, and moved to Kyiv after the war began in Donbas, and Donetsk was occupied. Following Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, she temporarily relocated to Berlin where she works with the Ukrainian Film Festival in Berlin. She began writing plays in 2019. Her plays have participated in Ukrainian competitions and festivals.
CAST
Sofiia Shulha is a student from Kyiv studying psychology at Trinity College Dublin. Her goal is to become a psychotherapist and help Ukrainians and other people with the mental health consequences of the war.
"I am honoured to be a part of the Ukrainian play readings, and I hope we can spread awareness and gather support for our heroes by doing so. "
"I am honoured to be a part of the Ukrainian play readings, and I hope we can spread awareness and gather support for our heroes by doing so. "
Софія - студентка з Києва, вивчає психологію в Триніті-коледжі. Її мета - стати психотерапевтом і допомагати українцям та іншим людям з впливом війни на психічне здоров'я.
"Для мене велика честь бути частиною читань українських творів, і я сподіваюся, що таким чином ми зможемо поширити інформацію та залучити підтримку нашим героям".
"Для мене велика честь бути частиною читань українських творів, і я сподіваюся, що таким чином ми зможемо поширити інформацію та залучити підтримку нашим героям".
Dixon Graham (Director) is a theatremaker and researcher from Charleston, South Carolina (USA) currently completing her MPhil in Theatre and Performance at Trinity College Dublin. Dixon completed her undergraduate degrees at Clemson University in South Carolina in 2018, receiving a BA in Production Studies in Performing Arts with a Minor in Music and BS in Marketing. She is passionate about creating quality theatre that engages the audience on multiple levels and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her current area of research concerns staging emotionally provocative subjects and how we might anticipate, navigate, and address the potential effects of performing these subjects for both practitioners and audiences. She is a producer, director, sound and projection designer, and actor for this event, which is also a part of the practice-based portion of her current research. Following the completion of her MPhil at the end of the summer of 2023, she hopes to further research the different methods and mediums for immersive storytelling and how an audience's engagement and perception of the story may change with the different methods.
"I am constantly amazed and inspired by the incredible talent, beautiful culture, and unwavering strength that every Ukrainian carries with them and I am honored to have been a part of this project to help share these incredible stories with the world."