Natalia Blok
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| Born | 18 July 1980 in Kherson |
| 🏳️ Citizenship |  Ukraine |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Kherson School of Culture |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Playwright, public figure |
| 👶 Children | 3 |
Natalia Ihorivna Blok (Ukrainian: Наталія Ігорівна Блок) (born July 18, 1980, in Kherson, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian playwright, screenwriter, and theater director. Her works have been staged at state and independent theaters in Ukraine and internationally. She has been recognized with multiple awards for her writing and is a founding member of the Theater of Playwrights in Kyiv.[1]
Early Life and Education
Blok was born in Kherson, Ukraine, and studied theater directing at the Kherson School of Culture. Graduated from the Kherson School of Culture with a degree in "Theater group management" specialization in 2000. Her education provided the foundation for her later work as a playwright, director, and screenwriter.[2]
Professional Career
Blok's plays have appeared at municipal theaters and in independent scenes both in Ukraine and abroad.[3] Her highlighted performances and premieres include:
- "Das Leben ist unaufhaltsam" (Life is Unstoppable), Theater Basel, 2023/24 season.[1]
- "Choose the best version" (Paris Globe, Norway, Estonia, 2024).[1]
- "Ukrainian New Drama after the Euromaiden Revolution" (London, 2023).[2]
- "Not All Dictators" (Melbourne, Australia, 2023).[2]
- "WeltBühne" (Residenz Theater Munich, 2022).[2]
- "Mom Sick" (Portugal, 2022).[2]
Her works have been translated into multiple languages including Polish, Georgian, German, Russian, French, English, and Romanian. Blok has curated the "Tizhden Drib" short list for the Tizhden Actual Play competition since 2019.[4]
She co-founded in 2020 the Theater of Playwrights in Kyiv, supporting the growth of contemporary drama in Ukraine and abroad.[5]
Blok has also written and directed for film and television, with credits including documentaries and feature films shown at international festivals.[2]
Awards and Recognition
Blok's writing has earned her several major awards:
- Winner, Week of Current Play (Ukraine, 2018).[6]
- Finalist, Play-At-Stempel Competition, Ukrainian Institute (2020).[2]
- Winner, festival of contemporary art "Terra Futura" (2007).[7]
- Winner, gender media contest "Krona" (2014).[6]
- Winner as a screenwriter of various national pitching and state cinema competitions[3][4]
Art
- 2024 Premiere of "Football Fan", "Stadion der Träume",[6] Munich, Germany, Director Hans Steinbichler.
- 2024 Fiction story in a collection "Black, white and everything in between",[8] Ukraine.
- 2024 Text "Who needs your truth", presentation at the "WELT/BÜHNE" festival, Theater"Residenz Theater".[9]
- 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»,[10] Paris, France.
- 2024 Play in the collection "Historier fra Ukraina",[11] Norway.
- 2023 Performance at the Theater "Latvijas Nacionālais teātris",[12] Riga, Latvia.
- 2023 Performance at the "Theater Dramaturhyv", Ukraine.
- 2023 International premiere of the play at the festival «Vabaduse»,[13] Theater «Vaba Lava», Narva, Estonia.
- 2023 The performance "Life cannot be stopped",[14] Theater «Theater Basel», Basel, Switzerland, Director Peter Kastenmüller.
- 2023 The play "Vybukhyvka" in the collection «Ukrainian New Drama after the Euromaidan Revolution»,[15] 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»,[16] Salzburg, Austria.
- 2023 The play "City Behind the Wallpaper" in the collection "Pokydky and other plays. Modern Ukrainian dramaturgy".[17]
- 2017-2023 The play "Through Skin":
- 2023 Premiere of the play "Not All Dictators", Theater «La Mama», Portugal.
- 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[20]
- 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[21]
- 2019 Premiere to Ukraine 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)[22] Archived 2021-01-17 at the Wayback Machine)
- 2018 Premiere of the play "Kaidash and sons"[23] 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"[24]! Wild Theater, Kyiv director Maksym Golenko
- 2018 Project "Theater in Two Weeks" 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" 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
- Screenwriter of the documentary film "The Doors" directed by Ustnin Danchuk
- Documentary film director, screenwriter «66%»[25]
- 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"[26] (full-length, fiction). Director Yuriy Leuta
- Screenwriter (co-writer Daryna Volga) of the film "Water"[27] 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
Feminist, participated in the defense LGBT Community in Ukraine.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Theater-Basel".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "Residenz Theater".
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Laertes Books".
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Schauspiel-Stuttgart".
- ↑ "Theater Dramaturhyv".
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Natalia Blok".
- ↑ "Biruchiy".
- ↑ "Чорне, біле і все, що поміж|Наталя Блок|350,00 ₴|9789664213209".
- ↑ "Natalia Blok | residenztheater.de".
- ↑ "Choose a Better Version".
- ↑ "Historier fra Ukraina".
- ↑ "Izvēlies labāku versiju (Igaunija/Ukraina)".
- ↑ "(elu) sunnitud valikud (Eesti/Ukraina) – Vabaduse festival".
- ↑ "Peter Kastenmüller inszeniert "Das Leben ist unaufhaltsam – Szenen aus Cherson" am Theater Basel". SWR.online. Archived from the original on 2024-10-03. Retrieved 2024-12-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Ukrainian New Drama after the Euromaidan Revolution".
- ↑ "Verstörungen 2023 (Goldegg)".
- ↑ Покидьки та інші п'єси. Сучасна українська драматургія. Folio. 2023. ISBN 978-617-551-413-9. Search this book on
- ↑ "Крізь Шкіру".
- ↑ "Semaine de la dramaturgie Ukrainienne - Jour 3. Moi ça va - Lavoir moderne parisien".
- ↑ "Центр художньої та технічної творчості "Печерськ" -". Archived from the original on 2021-01-16. Retrieved 2024-12-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Вистава «Прибулець»". 19 March 2019.
- ↑ https://teatrkulisha.org/
- ↑ "ANGKA69 | Wisata Hiburan Game Slot Online Anti Libur".
- ↑ "Жінко, сядь┃Дикий театр".
- ↑ "Краткометражный документальный фильм «66%»".
- ↑ "Сценарна майстерня. Наталя Блок".
- ↑ "Вода". Archived from the original on 2021-01-21. Retrieved 2024-12-09. Unknown parameter
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