Authorial Creation

Maryana Kozak
... born in Ukraine, has lived in Czechia since she was eight. After obtaining a degree in political sciences with a thesis on the Czechoslovakian new wave, she began the master’s programme in authorial acting and education at the Theatre Academy DAMU in Prague. She has specialisations in creating characters, authorial creation of performance and screenwriting from the Regent’s School of Drama, Film & Media (London); in acting and directing from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University; she was in Csabe Bollóka’s film screenwriting master class at Dregelypalanka in Hungary. She works in film production (Milk & Honey Films), mostly advertising spots and documentaries.As a complex author and performer she has created two projects – Cepóčka and Oy Kiev, Kiev.She has also worked in the concept and production of the theatre-anthropological festival Velká Lhota and the organisation and production of the student festival Nablízko in Prague.