My name is Nastya, and I am originally from Moscow, Russia. I graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor's degree in Theater Studies in 2023 and have lived and worked in London since. For my thesis project, I wrote and directed a staged reading of my first full-length play about the Russian-Ukrainian war, documenting my family's reactions to the conflict and ongoing repression in my home country. I have contributed to various Russian-speaking publications based in the UK, covering theatre in London and beyond. I am currently working on my first full-scale production based on the history of the 1968 Soviet protest against the invasion of Czechoslovakia.