Kira Malinina is a playwright, stage director, theater teacher, gestalt therapist, and performer.
Since 2010, she has been a member of the Union of Theater Workers of Ukraine. From 2009 to 2015, she was the director of the contemporary dance theater “Laboratoryia teatrra” (together with choreographer Yulia Danilenko). Since 2010, she has worked as a theatre director at the School of Contemporary Theater and Stage Directions. Performances based on her plays were staged at the “Molodyi Theater” (Kyiv), the Ivan Franko Theater (Ivano-Frankivsk), and theaters in Kharkiv, Dnipro, Sarapul, Cyprus, and Moscow. She is a teacher of educational projects Class Act and “Class Drama.” She won the British Council’s “Taking the Stage” competition in Ukraine. She has participated in numerous theater and playwriting festivals in Russia and Ukraine.
She was born on November 25, 1983, in Kaspiysk (Dagestan, Russia). Since 1997, she lived in Tolyatti, and since 2006, in Kharkiv. In 2022, during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she was forced to move to Belgium.
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