Tamara Trunova

In 1999-2004, she studied at the Kyiv National Linguistic University, specializing in “translator”. In 2008, she graduated from the Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema and Television named after I. K. Karpenko-Karyi, directing faculty, the course of People’s Artist of Ukraine, professor Eduard Mytnytskyi. Combines creative and teaching activities (in 2008-2013 – at the Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema and Television named after I.K. Karpenko-Karyi, on the directing course of Eduard Mytnytskyi; from 2018 – artistic director of the directing course).

Since 2011, she has been working at the Left Bank Theater, where she has been the Chief Director of the theater since 2019. In 2016 and 2018, she was a member of the jury of the Edinburgh Fringe International Festival (Great Britain). In 2016, Tamara Trunova became the winner of the competitive theater program Taking the Stage. The performance “Sasha, take out the trash” based on the play by Nataliya Vorozhbyt won the 1st place in the “Kyiv Score-2017” rating, and “Bad Roads” based on the play by Natalia Vorozhbyt won the 1st place in the “Kyiv Score-2018″ rating”, for the play “Passenger in a suitcase” Tamara Trunova was awarded the diploma “For the elegance of the director’s form” at the 1st All-Ukrainian festival of young directors named after Les Kurbas (2012). The play “Bad Roads” became the winner of the II All-Ukrainian theater festival-award “GRA” in the nominations: the best dramatic play, the best musical solution, the best directorial work (2019). “Kyiv Pectoral” Theater Award: the play “Tom Sawyer” was nominated as “Best Play for Children” (2008), the play “Passenger in a Suitcase” based on U. Hub’s play “Near the Ark at Eight” (2012) became a laureate in in the “Best Play for Children” nomination, the play “Two young ladies in the direction of the north” was nominated as “Best chamber play” (2013).

Tamara Trunova – participant of master classes and festivals: “Kurbalesiya” (2012), Festival of Young Directors (2012, 2013, 2014), Festival “Week of Actual Play” (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016), Workshop GOGOLFEST (2013 ), Cherkasy Theater Laboratory (2013-2014), International Theater Festival “Document” (2014), International Festival-Laboratory “Telpa Daugavpils” (Latvia, 2014), International Partner Laboratory (Belarus, 2015). “Festival of Theaters” (Lviv 2017), International Theater Festival “Melpomena of Tavria” (Kherson, 2018), International Theater Festival “Melpomena of Tavria” (Kherson, 2019), International Arts Festival “Carpathian Space” (Ivano-Frankivsk, 2019), the Wschód Kultury festival (Białystok, Poland, 2019), “Festival JULA” (Munich, Germany, 2020), the International Festival of Ukrainian Theater “East-West” (Krakow, Poland, 2020), the festival of Eastern European theater “Radar Ost – Deutsches Theater Berlin” (Berlin, Germany, 2020, 2021 and 2023).

For 2023, the play “Home” (author – Nicola McCartney) was included in the short list of the “GRA” Festival-Award in the nomination “Best Chamber Performance”.

In 2021, Tamara Trunova became a laureate of the “Women in Arts” award in the “Women in the Theater” category.

In 2022, she received the Shevchenko Prize in the nomination “Theatrical Art”

Performances created by Tamara Trunova:

Kyiv Academic Theater of Drama and Comedy on the left bank of the Dnieper

“Tom Sawyer”, a play by Yar. Stelmach based on M. Twain’s novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, 2008

“Passenger in a suitcase” based on the play by U. Hub “By the Ark at eight o’clock”, 2012

“Two young ladies towards the north” by P. Knott, 2013

“Closer” by P. Marber, 2015

“The dowry woman. Version” based on the play by O. Ostrovsky, 2016

“House on the edge of the soul” based on the play “Iphigenia” by D. Nigro, 2018

“Bad roads” by N. Vorozhbyt, 2019

“Warranty for 2 years” based on the play “Human Man” by S. Peltola, 2019

“All the Best Things” by D. Macmillan, 2020

“Home” by N. McCartney, 2021

“Unfunny stand-up”, 2021

Theatre “Free Stage”

“Evening with the pretty and lonely” by O. Yerneva, 2012

Kyiv academic workshop of theatrical art “Constellation”

“Bachelors and Bachelorettes” by H. Levin, 2012

House of Education and Culture “Master Class”

“Where is everyone?” by L. Langseth’s “Mark me”, 2012

“Faryatyev’s Fantasies” by A. Sokolova, 2013

Cherkasy regional music and drama theater named after T. Shevchenko

“Lena” by D. Levitskyi, 2014

International festival-laboratory Telpa Daugavpils (city of Daugavpils, Latvia)

“Crimea” by O. Savchenko, 2014

Kyiv Academic Theater “Golden Gate”

“How two poor Romanians spoke Polish” by D. Maslovska, 2015

“KostyaKatyaMamaChai”, director – T. Hubriy, play “Ulun” by T. Trunova, 2017

“The Test” by Lukas Berfuss, 2022

T.G. Shevchenko National Opera of Ukraine

“The Lady’s Maid” by J. B. Pergolesi, 2016

Kyiv Academic Young Theater

“Sasha, take out the trash” by N. Vorozhbyt, 2017

Kyiv National Academic Operetta Theater

“Under the Blue Sky” by D. Eldridge, 2017

The Royal Exchange Theater (Manchester, Great Britain)

“The people are singing” by L. Nunnery, 2017

Open Opera Ukraine

“Dido and Aeneas” by H. Purcell, 2017

“Acis and Galatea” by H. F. Handel, 2019

National Center of Theater Arts named after Les Kurbas

part of the project “Ideal Theater” DanceLaboratory, project participant

“Banquet”, Device Theater, 2018

National cultural and artistic and museum complex “Art Arsenal”
“Beautiful twenty-year-olds. Teaser” by D. Levytskyi, 2018, opening performance of “Book Arsenal”

Theatrical space “Scene 6” in the Dovzhenko Center
“Bad roads” by N. Vorozhbyt, 2018

“Numbers” by O. Sentsov, 2018

Kyiv Academic Drama Theater on Podil

“Navigator” by L. Bugadze, 2020

Bouquet Kyiv Stage Festival

“Sophia Speaks” project, 2021

Teatr Dramatyczny im. Aleksandra Węgierki w Białymstoku (Białystok, Poland)

“Inwazja” (“Invasion”) by M. Przeslyuga, 2022

Alytaus teatras (Alytus, Lithuania)

“Blogi keliai” (“Bad roads”) by N. Vorozhbyt, 2023

Deutschen Theater Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

“HA*L*T” by T. Trunova and M. Smilyanets as part of the “Radar Ost” festival, 2023

Performances