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Yulia Zaulychna
scenographer, theatre and stage costume designer
Born in 1985. Yuliia Zaulychna is a bright representative of the new generation of scenic designers, the author of imaginative and functional stage design filled with deep meanings. She has implemented more than 70 projects in 15 theatres in Ukraine (Kyiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Lviv) and abroad.
Artworks
Biography
Education:
Graduated from the Faculty of Scenography and Screen Arts of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture of Ukraine. Workshop of Alla Kirichenko, Department of Scenography and Screen Arts (2011).
The artist's career began with her work at the Kyiv National Academic Young Theatre on the play Late Love (directed by Yulia Maslak). She continued her work at the Kyiv National Operetta Theatre. From 2021 to 2023, she worked as the chief artist of the Vasyl Vasylko Odesa Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre, and also constantly collaborated with the independent Wild Theatre and the Ivan Franko National Academic Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre in Ivano-Frankivsk. Since 20 November 2023, she has been the chief artist of the Maria Zankovetska National Academic Ukrainian Drama Theatre in Lviv.
Performances:
Kyiv National Academic Operetta Theatre: set design and costumes for Treasure Island, a musical for children based on the novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson, conducted by Ihor Yaroshenko, choreographer Volodymyr Vorvulev, choreographer Anzhela Hrechanovska (2012)
Kyiv Academic Theatre ‘Golden Gate’: scenography and costumes for the performance ‘Colours’ by Pavlo Arie, directed by Vlada Bilozorenko (2015), ‘The Queen of Beauty’ by Martin McDonagh, directed by Maksym Holenko (2017)
Kyiv National Academic Drama Young Theatre: set and costume designer for the play ‘Love of People’ by Dmytro Bogoslavsky, directed by Stas Zyrkov, ‘Take, Love, Run’ by Oksana Savchenko, directed by Caroline Steinbeis (UK, London), 2013. London), 2013, In the Burning Dark, based on a play by Antonio Buero Vallejo, directed by Stanislav Moiseev (2008), An Incredible Love Story, based on a play by Kira Malinina, directed by Anton Romanov (2012), Sasha, Take Out the Trash, based on a play by Natalka Vorozhbyt, directed by Tamara Trunova (2017), costume designer for Euripides' Medea, directed by Oleg Liptsyn, production designer Volodymyr Karashevskyi (2019), Woody Allen's Riverside Drive, directed by Yevhen Galkin (2019)
Mykolaiv National Academic Ukrainian Drama and Musical Comedy Theatre: set and costume designer for the performances The Host by Ivan Karpenko-Kary, directed by Maksym Holenko (2016), and Sunset by Isak Babel, directed by Maksym Holenko (2018)
‘Wild Theatre’, Kyiv: scenographer, costume designer for the performances ‘Handcuffs 2.0.’ by Natalka Vorozhbyt, directed by Maksym Holenko (2019), ‘A Mechanical Orange’ based on the novel by Anthony Burgess, staged by Lena Liagushonkova, directed by Maksym Holenko (2020)
Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre in Ivano-Frankivsk: set and costume designer for Gogol Cabaret based on the works of Mykola Gogol, staged by Jules Audrey, directed by Jules Audrey, France (2020)
Rivne Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre: set and costume designer for the play ‘Granary’ by Natalka Vorozhbyt, directed by Maksym Holenko (2022)
Vasyl Vasylko Odesa Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre: set designer, costume designer for the play Carpathian Western. Author's group ‘Pirate Bay’: Oleksandr Naboka, Oleksiy Buratynskyi, Bohdan Tsyhanok, Roman Marov, directed by Maksym Holenko (2023), Sasha, Take Out the Trash by Natalka Vorozhbyt, directed by Maksym Holenko (2022)
Kyiv Academic Theatre in Podil: ‘Green Corridors by Natalka Vorozhbyt, directed by Maksym Holenko (2023)
National Academic Drama Theatre named after Maria Zankovetska: author of costumes for the play Satisfaction based on the play Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare directed by Stanislav Moiseev (2020), set design and costumes for the plays Enemies. A Love Story’ by Itzhak Bashevis Singer, staged by Oleksiy Dorichevsky, directed by Maksym Holenko (2023), “Red Rue”, directed by Maksym Holenko (2024), ’Zhadan. I Will Be Your Eyes by Serhiy Zhadan, directed by Andrius Darela (2024), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, libretto by David Greig, music by Mark Seaman, lyrics by Scott Whitman and Mark Seaman based on the novel by Roald Dahl, directed by Natalia Syvanenko (2024).
As an art director, she worked on the short film Roots, based on the short story by Hryhor Tyutyunnyk, The Wild One. Directed and written by Dmytro Sukholytkyi-Sobchuk, cinematographer Mykyta Kuzmenko (2013). The film was part of the New Ukrainian Wave project.
Participant in projects:
2023 - Ukrainian National Pavilion ‘Garden of Living Things’ at the Prague Quadrennial, Prague, Czech Republic
2022 - Residence of Ukrainian scenographers in Georgia, Ukrainian pavilion at the International Tbilisi Biennale of Scenography, Tbilisi, Georgia
Exhibitions:
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2024 - participation in three exhibitions of the project ‘Ukrainian theatre costume of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Identity, context, landscape’ at the gallery of the Dzyga Art Centre (Lviv), the gallery of the Centre for Intercultural Creative Initiatives ‘Rozdroża’ (Lublin), and the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema (Kyiv). The project is supported by the UCF and the Ukrainian Institute
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2023 - participant in the exhibition ‘Ukraine and the Prague Quadrennial’ at the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine, Kyiv
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2022 - participant of the Triennial of Scenography named after D. Lider at the Central House of Artists, Kyiv
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2022 - participant in the exhibition ‘Danylo Lider Triennial of Scenography: to continue’ at the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine, Kyiv
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2019 - participant of the Danylo Lider Triennial of Scenography. National Museum ‘Kyiv Art Gallery’, Kyiv
Awards:
In 2019, Yulia Zaulychna received the award for the best scenography for the play Sunset at the Melpomene of Tavria Festival.
The plays ‘Granary’ and ‘Sasha, Take Out the Trash’ were shortlisted for the best plays of the V All-Ukrainian Festival-Prize ‘Play’ of the National Theatre and Comedy Council of Ukraine in 2022.
In 2023, the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre of Ivano-Frankivsk received the award of the Graha Festival-Prize for the scenography for the play Forest Song on the Field of Blood.
In 2023, the play Granary by the Rivne Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre was nominated for the Shevchenko Prize.
Yulia Zaulychna also received a diploma for the best work of an artist at the Open Night Take 17 Film Festival (2014) for the art design of the film Roots.
