Karina Syrota
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BIO
Karina Syrota is a playwright from Kyiv, Ukraine now living in the US, where she is a rising senior at Marist University. She’s a member of Young Playwrights Ukraine where, aside from writing plays, she’s created their videos, including one that ran in the lobby of Orion Theatre in Stockholm for three months. She’s also acted as a producer and coordinator of YPU events including The Ten-Minute Play Project and Young Playwrights Ukraine @ The Tank.
Her play The Orchid was written during a mentorship project and was first performed for a Zoom audience, directed by Jodie Markell, starring Catherine Curtin and Scott Cohen and mentored by playwright Jacquelyn Reingold. The Orchid was presented by The Vineyard Theater with Catherine Curtin and Frank Wood and is included in This is Not a Dream, published by Smith & Kraus.
Her work has also been developed or presented by The Tank, The Segal Center Theater, Lex-Ham Theater in Minneapolis, Orion Theatre in Stockholm, and Marist University.
She’s currently working with Theresa Rebeck on a devised play by Young Playwrights Ukraine, based on interviews with acting students living with war in Kyiv.
Colby Minifie, Catherine Curtin and Frank Wood in a reading of "The Orchard" in Kathleen Chalfant's living room in Brooklyn
Boom at the Segal Center
Alex Feldman, Catherine Curtin and Frank Wood in "The Orchid" at The VIneyard