Masha Kevinovna

Masha Kevinovna is a Writer / Director of Ukrainian, Russian & Jewish heritage.

Artistic Director of OPIA Collective, a multidisciplinary art collective.

She is passionate about creating work that blends art forms together to tell stories that provide a new perspective to the society we live in.

As a writer Masha has written for Harts Theatre Company, National Youth Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Royal Court, Pentabus, Nabakov Theatre and Pleasance Theatre.

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
JMK Award Finalist 2022
Finalist for Young Harts Writing Festival 2018
Nominated for Origins Award 2023
Nominated for Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund

Credits

As Director:

DIRECTOR, lilacs out of the dead land, 3 days, Rose Bruford Theatre, 2023

DIRECTOR, LOVE BOMB, 1 week, National Youth Theatre, 2023

DIRECTOR, lilacs out of the dead land (Sharing), 1 day, Omnibus Theatre, 2023

DIRECTOR, LALI, VAULT Festival & Mercury Theatre, 2 weeks, 2023
* Nominated for Origins Award 2023

DIRECTOR, Then & There / Here & Now, Royal & Derngate, 2 days, 2022

DIRECTOR, Breathe - The Play That Becomes A Rave, Royal Albert Hall & Pleasance Theatre (Edinburgh), 4 weeks, 2022
* Off West End Nomination - Best Production
* Winner of Spirit of the Fringe Award

DIRECTOR, I'm Sorry I'm Not Lucy Liu, Camden People's Theatre, 1 day, 2022

DIRECTOR, Babel (Sharing), Camden People's Theatre, 1 day, 2022

DIRECTOR, Maryland, Riverside Studios & National Youth Theatre,
2 days, 2021

DIRECTOR, Royal Court Writers Group - led by Cecilia Knapp (Rehearsed Reading), Royal Court, 1 day, 2021

DIRECTOR, Ordinary Miracle, Workshop Theatre, National Youth Theatre, 1 week, 2021

DIRECTOR, This Queer House, VAULT Festival, 1 week, 2020

DIRECTOR, The Girl With Glitter In Her Eye, Bunker Theatre, 3 weeks, 2020

DIRECTOR, This Queer House (Sharing), Theatre Peckham, 1 day, July 2019

DIRECTOR, R&D: The Girl With Glitter In Her Eye, The Albany, 1 day, March 2019

DIRECTOR, England, My England (Rehearsed Reading), Omnibus Theatre, 1 day, November 2018

DIRECTOR, The Girl With Glitter In Her Eye (Sharing), Lyric Hammersmith, Battersea Arts Centre & Theatre Royal Stratford East, 1 week, 2018

DIRECTOR, You Must Learn To Understand, Roundhouse, 2 days, June 2018

As Associate Director:

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Animal Farm (incl. remounting show at tour venues), Royal & Derngate Theatre (and tour), 5 weeks, 2021

As Assistant Director:

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Othello, Royal & Derngate Theatre (and tour), 5 weeks, 2021

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, History of Water in the Middle East, Royal Court, 5 weeks, 2019

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, London Rise (Porgy & Bess), English National Opera, London Coliseum, 1 day, October 2018

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, ReAct: The Woods, Royal Court, Young Court Production, 1 day, October 2018

Training

NFTS BFI London Skills Cluster Training Bootcamp, 2023

Introduction to Translating, Royal Court, 2022

National Young Writer’s Programme, Pentabus Theatre, 2022

Bryan Forbes Assistant Director Bursary Recipient 2020/21,
mentored by Prasanna Puwanarajah

Young Vic - Storytelling Through Sound 2021

Soho Writers Lab 2019/20

Epic Stages, National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, 2017

BA Arts & Humanities, 2017, (First Class)