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Natalia Blok
Born18 July 1980 in Kherson
Citizenship Ukraine
Alma materKherson School of Culture
Known forPlaywright, public figure
Children3

Natalia Blok - ukrainian playwright, conceptual artist, screenwriter and feminist. In her creative work, Natalka Blok raises issues of gender inequality. Co-founder (with Marina Usmanova) of the feminist organization "Insha".

Biography

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Born on July 18, 1980 in Kherson. Graduated from the Kherson School of Culture with a degree in "Theater group management" specialization in 2000.

She worked as a journalist. Later, she began to engage in public activities. Natalia Blok is a regular participant in all-Ukrainian and international festivals that bring together contemporary playwrights and artists. She writes scripts for full-length plays, TV series, and short films.

Lives and works in Kyiv.

Natalia Blok, 2016

Art

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  • 2024 Premiere of "Football Fan", "Stadion der Träume",[1] Munich, Germany, Director Hans Steinbichler.
  • 2024 Fiction story in a collection "Black, white and everything in between",[2] Ukraine.
  • 2024 Text "Who needs your truth", presentation at the "WELT/BÜHNE" festival, Theater"Residenz Theater".[3]
  • 2023-2024 The play "Choose the best version", together with the "Playwrights' Theater", Ukraine, Director Walter Silis:
    • 2024 Performance at an international festival «Paris Globe»,[4] Paris, France.
    • 2024 Play in the collection "Historier fra Ukraina",[5] Norway.
    • 2023 Performance at the Theater "Latvijas Nacionālais teātris",[6] Riga, Latvia.
    • 2023 Performance at the "Theater Dramaturhyv", Ukraine.
    • 2023 International premiere of the play at the festival «Vabaduse»,[7] Theater «Vaba Lava», Narva, Estonia.
  • 2023 The performance "Life cannot be stopped",[8] Theater «Theater Basel», Basel, Switzerland, Director Peter Kastenmüller.
  • 2023 The play "Vybukhyvka" in the collection «Ukrainian New Drama after the Euromaidan Revolution»,[9] London, Great Britain.
  • 2023 Text "Instructions for planning a good future from a Ukrainian refugee", presentation at the festival «Verstörungen 2023: Thomas Bernhard and Utopia»,[10] Salzburg, Austria.
  • 2023 The play "City Behind the Wallpaper" in the collection "Pokydky and other plays. Modern Ukrainian dramaturgy".[11]
  • 2017-2023 The play "Through Skin":
    • 2023 The premiere of a one-man play, Theater "Oko",[12] Lviv, Ukraine.
    • 2023 Reading the text at the festival "Week of Ukrainian Drama in Paris",[13] France.
    • 2017 Premiere of the play in Cologne (Germany), Director Andrii Mai.
  • 2023 Premiere of the play "Not All Dictators", Theater «La Mama»,[14] Melbourne, Australia.
  • 2022 Premiere of the play "Mom Got Sick", Theater "Teatro Nacional São João",[15] Portugal.
  • 2020 Co-founder "[16]Theater Dramaturhyv".[17]
  • 2020 Co-curator of the second drama laboratory of the NSTDU
  • 2020 Finalist of the international drama competition from the Ukrainian Institute.
  • 2020 Head of the drama course, "Write like Shakespeare" Pechersk Cultural Center[18] Archived 2021-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
  • 2019 Curator of the drama competition "Week of DRIB" Winner of the all-Ukrainian competition "Week of Actual Play", play "Vybukhyvka"
  • 2019 Performance "In the Darkness" "Post Play Theater" Kyiv, Director Bohdan Logvinovsky.
  • 2019 Premiere of the play The Stranger in Cherkasy Academic State University[19] Archived 2021-01-21 at the Wayback Machine
  • 2019 Premiere to Ukraine[20] Archived 2021-01-21 at the Wayback Machine May Bush Theater Kyiv
  • 2019 Premiere of "In the Darkness" Batumi State Theater (Georgia)
  • 2019 Curator of the drama competition "Tyzhden Drib" (Kyiv)
  • 2018 Head of the "18+" theater laboratory at the state Theater Kulysh (Kherson)[21] Archived 2021-01-17 at the Wayback Machine)
  • 2018 Premiere of the play "Kaidash and sons"[22] Archived 2021-01-21 at the Wayback Machine Kherson Regional Academic Theater named after M. Kulish.
  • 2018 Winner of the All-Ukrainian Drama Festival "Current Play Week" The play "The Stranger"
  • 2018 Premiere of the play "Woman, Sit Down"[23] Archived 2021-01-21 at the Wayback Machine! Wild Theater, Kyiv director Maksym Golenko
  • 2018 Project "Theater in Two Weeks"[24] Archived 2022-05-04 at the Wayback Machine premiere of the play "Bomb" directed by Deisy Hayes (Great Britain)
  • 2017 The performance "For Your Sake" Transcarpathia, "Chiga-Biga" Theater.
  • 2017 The performance "I Wanted It Myself", Golden Gate Theater, directed by Yulia Moroz, Kyiv.
  • 2017 The play "Day by Day" directed by Andriy May. Kherson.
  • 2017 Exhibition "Orangery" Tbilisi, Batumi, Georgia.
  • 2017 Participant of the international project "Class-Art-West-East" as a playwright.
  • 2017 Winner of the All-Ukrainian Drama Festival "Week of Actual Play" Play "Throughout the Skin", play "I'm Worried About All the Shit"
  • 2017 Short list of participants in the competition at the RAMT reading "Photo-Topless"
  • 2017 The play "Varicose Veins or Why We Need Feminism" Kherson. Theater "May Bush", Kyiv, "PostPlay Theater", Lviv "Mediatheka"
  • 2016 Participant of the NHSh festival: Science Art, exhibition at the Yermilov Center, author of the project "Postfood", installation with the Low Temperature Group; video art "Olivier", presentation at the performance "Don't Take Me Off the Tree"[1]; play "Photo-Topless", staged at the Dakh Theater, directed by Yuriy Sushko; play "Own-Alien", presented at the international drama competition "Remarka".
  • 2016 long list of the international drama competition "Eurasia" play "Photo-Topless"
  • 2016 Winner of the All-Ukrainian Drama Festival "Current Play Week" The play "Sovetov Land".
  • 2016 Monoplay Festival in Batumi (Georgia) performance "In a Circle"
  • 2016 Gogol-Fest —The play "For Your Sake"
  • 2016 Participation in the project "Fear, Identity Maps"[25] Archived 2019-04-04 at the Wayback Machine Performance with Dmitry Levitsky "Sovetov Land"
  • 2015  director of the play "Tyzhemat" (co-authored with Marina Usmanova), presentation at the Rovnosti festival; play "You Won't Be Up to", presentation at the "Fever-Fever" festival; video art "Strange Girl and Alien Jean-Paul", presentation at the National Museum Complex Mystetsky Arsena; documentary film "66%"; participant in the exhibition "Above God", author of the media art "Two Shevchenkos and a Time Machine", "Alina and Adolf", "Story" in co-authorship with Stas Volyazlovsky; play "Photo-Topless", presentation at the "GOGOLFEST" festival; actress of the play and director of the play "Stigma", Kherson.
  • 2014  the play "Decembrists Street", presentation at the festival "Week of Actual Plays"; the video art "The Incredible Life of Lonely Children", presented in the film almanac "Strange"; the film "No Logic", presentation at the festival "Kherson-Document: There or Back"; the play "Love is Stronger", long list of the play competition "Drama UA".
  • 2013  plays "Meat", "Zone", "City of Kherson"; photo project "One Day of a Nanny", presentation at the "TERRA FUTURA" festival.
  • 2009  play "Childfree"; author and director of the play "Emo True", presentation at the "Lutyj-Lutyj" festival.
  • 2008  episode in verbatim "Youth Old Age", presentation at the "February-February" festival, organized by the V. Meyerhold Center, director Andriy Mai; Installation "Geno-Counter", presentation at the festival "Gogol-Fest".
  • 2007  video art "Mom and Dad", presentation at the contemporary art festival "TERRA FUTURA".
  • 2003  play "Happiness in children".
  • 2002  The play "Are There Women?", presentation at the contemporary art festival "TERRA FUTURA".

Filmography

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  • Screenwriter of the documentary film "The Doors" directed by Ustnin Danchuk
  • Documentary film director, screenwriter «66%»[26] Archived 2021-01-21 at the Wayback Machine
  • Director, screenwriter of the documentary film "Breakwaters"
  • Screenwriter (co-authored with Yulia Gonchar) of the film "How's Katya?" (full-length, feature film)
  • Screenwriter of the film "Femen" (full-length, biopic). Director Daryna Zhuk
  • Film screenwriter "On that shore"[27] Archived 2020-12-03 at the Wayback Machine (full-length, fiction). Director Yuriy Leuta
  • Screenwriter (co-writer Daryna Volga) of the film "Water"[28] Archived 2021-01-21 at the Wayback Machine short film, feature film.
  • Screenwriter of the documentary film "Tomorrow Will Come Today" full-length (Turkey)
  • Screenwriter of the short film "Sister". Director Kseniya Onishchenko
  • Screenwriter "Tell Me You Love Me", full-length film, drama
  • Showrunner of the project "FaniLove"
  • Coronation of the Word. Second prize in 2020 for screenplay ("On the Other Side")
  • Screenwriter of the series "Area 51" dramedy, series

Other activities

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At a peaceful march in Kherson on the International Day Against Homophobia

Feminist, participated in the defense LGBT Community in Ukraine.


References

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  1. ^ https://stadiondertraeume.de/de/team/natalia-blok
  2. ^ https://teza.in.ua/golovna/chorne-bile-i-vse-ssho-pomizh
  3. ^ https://www.residenztheater.de/autoren-a-z/natalia-blok
  4. ^ https://parisglobe.fr/en/choose-the-best-version
  5. ^ https://www.solumbokvennen.no/products/historier-fra-ukraina
  6. ^ https://teatris.lv/izrade/izvelies-labaku-versiju-igaunija-ukraina/
  7. ^ https://vabadusefestival.ee/programm/elu-sunnitud-valikud-eesti-ukraina/
  8. ^ https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/buehne/kampf-um-die-jugend-peter-kastenmueller-inszeniert-das-leben-ist-unaufhaltsam-szenen-aus-cherson-am-theater-basel-100.html
  9. ^ https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ukrainian-new-drama-after-the-euromaidan-revolution-9781350335912/
  10. ^ https://thomasbernhard.at/veranstaltung/verstoerungen-2023-goldegg-2-2/
  11. ^ https://folio.com.ua/books/Pokidki-ta-inshi-p'iesi-Suchasna-ukrayinska-dramaturgiya
  12. ^ https://okoteatr.lviv.ua/product/kriz-shkiry/
  13. ^ https://lmp-billetterie.mapado.com/event/169039-semaine-de-la-dramaturgie-ukrainienne-jour-3-moi-ca-va
  14. ^ https://www.facebook.com/events/1499727710516526/?ref=newsfeed
  15. ^ https://www.tnsj.pt/pt/espetaculos/6465/ucrania-palco-livre-cinco-estacoes-україна-вільна-сцена-пять-сезонів
  16. ^ https://theatreofplaywrights.com/about
  17. ^ https://www.facebook.com/100069041589586/posts/660711039573610/?mibextid=WC7FNe&rdid=nclB86Z26AWX5n25
  18. ^ https://dk.kyivcity.gov.ua/content/centr-narodnoi-tvorchosti-pechersk.html,
  19. ^ https://in.ck.ua/ua/teatr/vystava-prybulec
  20. ^ https://nl-nl.facebook.com/events/286994732232009/welcome
  21. ^ https://teatrkulisha.org/
  22. ^ https://teatrkulisha.org/shows/kaydash-amp-sons
  23. ^ https://wild-t.com.ua/afisha/zhinko-sjad/
  24. ^ https://www.facebook.com/theatreintwoweeks/
  25. ^ https://www.facebook.com/mapy.strahu.mapy.identychnosti/«Мапи
  26. ^ https://coyc.com.ua/post/496
  27. ^ http://screenplay.com.ua/authors/?id=322
  28. ^ https://molodist.com/film/voda


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