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Tymoshenko Liudmila

Tymoshenko Liudmila

Playwright, screenwriter, co-founder of the Playwrights’ Theatre, Doctor of Political Sciences

Born in 1978 in Derzhavinsk, Northern Kazakhstan.

Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (2000). Defended her PhD dissertation in Philosophy (2004) and her Doctoral dissertation in Political Science (2013). Taught political science and sociology at the Department of International Relations and Social Sciences of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (2013–2022).

In 2013, she wrote her first play Golden Leggings, and since then dramaturgy has become an important part of her life and artistic work.

Co-founder of the Playwrights’ Theatre, active participant in Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings. Participant of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Writers’ Residency at the Schloss Solitude Academy (Germany) and the Schauspiel Stuttgart residency (Germany).

Author of approximately 15 plays, which have had over 20 productions on the stages of Ukrainian and European theatres; her texts have been translated into ten languages.

Bibliography

THEATRE PRODUCTIONS:

2017 – Once in Morske — "Sviya" Theatre, Zaporizhzhia
2020 – Once in Morske — "Harmyder" Theatre, Lutsk

2021–2024 – Five Songs of Polissia:

  • Ukrainian Malyy Drama Theatre (Kyiv)
  • Maria Zankovetska National Academic Drama Theatre (Lviv)
  • Rivne Regional Academic Music and Drama Theatre
  • Chernihiv Regional Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre named after T. H. Shevchenko
  • Sumy National Academic Theatre named after M. Shchepkin
  • "Harmyder" Theatre, Lutsk
  • Kyiv Small Drama Theatre
  • Municipal Theatre of the Boryspil City Council of Kyiv Region "Berezil"

2021 – The Affair, based on the play Uncle Misha Walks By — Kyiv Malyy Drama Theatre

2024 – The Story of a Pharmacist — Stepping Out Theatre, Bristol, United Kingdom

2021–2025 – Refugee Cats, a play co-written with Marina Smilianets:

  • Mykolaiv Academic Art Drama Theatre
  • Zakarpattia Regional Puppet Theatre "Bavka"
  • SCENEN Pipersgatan 4, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Rivne Regional Academic Puppet Theatre
  • Stepping Out Theatre, Bristol, United Kingdom
  • "Sonechko" Children’s Theatre, Kyiv
  • "Svitlotin" Theatre Studio, Brovary
  • Draamateater, Tallinn, Estonia
  • Luhansk Regional Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre

2023 – CITY X, co-written with Marina Smilianets — Schauspiel Stuttgart (Germany)

2024 – Gone with the Wind — Donetsk Regional Academic Drama Theatre (Mariupol)

2025 – Maria Zankovetska. Betrothed to the Stage, based on the play I Am Not Sarah Bernhardt — Maria Zankovetska National Academic Drama Theatre (Lviv)

SCREENPLAYS:

2021 – Co-author of the short fiction film GKChP, based on the play Golden Leggings, directed by A. Nepytaliuk.
The film was nominated for and won multiple awards, including 39th International Short Film Festival — International Competition, Best Live Action Film

2023 – Co-author of the feature film Lessons of Tolerance, directed by A. Nepytaliuk.
Nominated for the National Film Award "Golden Dzyga" for Best Screenplay.

PUBLICATIONS IN ANTHOLOGIES AND JOURNALS:

2025 – Fragments, translated into Polish by Bohdan Zadura — DIALOG, monthly journal devoted to contemporary dramaturgy, Vol. LXIX, February, No. 2 (816), pp. 5–18.

2023 – Uncle Misha Walks By (pp. 129–165); Gone with the Wind (pp. 343–382) — Scoundrels and Other Plays. Contemporary Ukrainian Drama, edited by Bohdan Strutynskyi, foreword by Hanna Veselovska. Kharkiv: Folio, 383 pp.

2023 – My Tara — A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War: 20 Short Works by Ukrainian Playwrights, pp. 155–161.
Publisher: Laertes, 2023. Language: English.

2022 – My Mother Is a Dinosaur, translated into Polish by Agnieszka Sowińska — Konteksty. Polish Folk Art, Issue 2023/4 (343): Ukrainian Landscapes: Reconstructions • War. Art. Decolonization.

MONOGRAPHS AND TEXTBOOKS:

  1. Kharchenko, L. V. Certain Patterns in the Formation of the Political and Administrative Elite in Ukraine. Kyiv: NULES of Ukraine Publishing Center, 2014. 224 pp.
  2. Kharchenko, L. V. The Formation of the Political and Administrative Elite in Ukraine (Historical and Methodological Aspect). Lviv: PAIS, 2011. 370 pp.
  3. A Study of the Most Common Proportional Electoral Systems Worldwide and the Prospects for Their Introduction into National State-Building and Law-Making. Analytical Report, ed. O. A. Fisun. Kyiv: NISS, 2007. 120 pp.
  4. Ukraine in 2005–2009: Strategic Assessments of Socio-Political and Socio-Economic Development. Monograph, ed. Yu. H. Ruban. Kyiv: NISS, 2009. 655 pp.
  5. Political Science: Encyclopedic Dictionary-Reference for Students of Higher Education Institutions, ed. N. M. Khoma. Lviv: Novyi Svit–2000, 2014. 779 pp.
  6. Contemporary Political Lexicon: Encyclopedic Dictionary-Reference, ed. N. M. Khoma. Lviv: Novyi Svit–2000, 2015. 369 pp.