ANASTASIIA KOSODII

Anastasiia Kosodii is from Zaporizhzhia and Kyiv. She is a Ukrainian playwright and director. She was a co-founder of the New Drama Theater in Zaporizhzhia. Before the fullscale Russian invasion of 2022, Anastasiia often worked with NGOs in Eastern Ukraine in towns on the front line of the ongoing war (2014–2022) between Ukraine and Russia. Her international work has most often been connected with the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin and the Münchner Kammerspiele Theater. After the Russian invasion, Anastasiia temporarily moved to Germany. She organized a series of readings under the title of Vom Krieg (About the War — Ukrainian Playwrights Tell of Life During the Russian Invasion) in a number of theaters around the world, including the Royal Court Theatre (London), Münchner Kammerspiele, Gorki Theater (Berlin), NTM Nationaltheater Mannheim, Schauspielhaus Wien, Staatstheater Hannover, and ETA Hoffmann Theater (Bamberg). In the fall of 2022, Anastasiia will begin work as a writer-in-residence at National Theater Mannheim.