ARTUR SUMAROKOV Playwright, performer, actor, film critic, journalist, gay/queer, he/him/it Artur Sumarokov is an actor, playwright, and art critic, born in 1990 in Kherson, Ukraine. He has published articles in Flashforward Magazine and Moviegram. He has taken part in the Week of Actual Play festivals of contemporary Ukrainian drama (2018, 2019, 2020, 2023), and has been a member of the artistic teams of productions at the Totem Center Theatre Lab in Kherson. Kherson, Ukraine artursumarokov87@gmail.com +38 099 068 87 62 Street Chernomorskaya 28, a, apt. 48, 73000 Author page on Ukrdramahub: https://www.ukrdramahub.org.ua/artur-sumarokov Education: KhNTU - philologist. Oktober 2022 - Februar 2023 - guest studentship at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Expanded Cinema Class, Professor Clemens von Wedemeyer. Trainings, actions etc related with basic grant's theme in which I participated: 2017 - Kherson, workshop of creative protests and artivism (themes of workshop: gender studies, intersectionality, LGBTQ rights etc) organized by Vitaliy Tzariuk. 2017 - Odessa, participant of Festival Creative Protests, organized by OdessaPride From 2017 to 2021 inclusively, I was constantly participating in the "Feminist March" and Queer-Forum in Kherson, organizer BO Insha. My public sign in solidarity with Iranian women https://www.pressegauche.org/Declaration-de-feministes-ukrainiennes-en-solidarite-avec-les-femmes-iraniennes Native Language: Russian, Ukrainian English - С2 Selected group exhibitions: 2023 - “Ni-Dum”, Narodnyj Dim, Przemysl, Poland 2022 - "Kherson Inside/Outside", Gallery Ra, Kyiv, Ukraine, Gallery "Dim z yangolom", Odessa, Ukraine, Gallery "XXI", Vinnitsya, Ukraine, Dzyga, Lviv, Ukraine 2022 - Project "Live", Vagabundo, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine 2022 - Project "Live", Gallery "Apartment #6", Odessa, Ukraine 2022 - Project "Live", Documenta-15, Kassel, Germany 2022 - Project "Live", Akcent Festival, Prague, Czech Republic 2022 - Project "Live", Milano, Italy, Italia X Ucraina Terra Libera 2022 - group exhibition of Ukrainian photography residents in KKKC (Olia Kowal, Julia Galeta, Olesia Saenko) - participant of photo project by Olia Kowal (male body from feminist female gaze), Klaipėda, Lithuania 2021 - group exhibition "Future-In-the-Past-Museum", Kherson, Ukraine, project "Team" together with Max Afanasyev: https://mitec.ua/kolektiv/ Projects "Live" and "Kherson Inside/ Outside" are about personal experience being refugee in Europe. Projects, performances and art practices: 2023 - stage reading of play Memel - Dnepr, Kyiv, Ukraine, Theatre of Playwrights, director Rob Feldman 2023 - stage reading of play “Memel - Dnepr”, Lviv, Ukraine, Lviv puppet theater, director Andriy May 2023 - stage reading of plays "Captivity", "Memel - Dnepr", Klaipėda drama theater, Lithuania, director Arturas Areima 2022 - performance "Decolonizing myself", International Theater Festival Piatra Neamt, Romania, Piatra Neamt, director Artur Sumarokov 2020 - the hero of the photo project "ArtURL", photographer - Stas Ostrous 2020 - photo project "Meridian of Beauty". Authors of the idea: Artur Sumarokov and Li Biletska, Photographer: Lі Biletska 2020 - Photo project - "Lost in modernism", participant, photographer - Stas Ostrous. 2018 - Mini-Festival of Contemporary British Drama Taking the Stage 2018, "Far Away",dir. Max Afanasyev, Totem Center Theater lab 2018 - Participant of the See Beyond Theater Residence, Lviv, organization Institute of Public Initiatives, 2018, group performance, curator Taras Pastuschuk 2017 - American, performance "Pasta with Sugar", directed by Max Afanasyev, performance toured in Kiev - PostPlayTheatre, Lviv - Lesya Ukrainka Theater, Kharkiv - Platform of Theater Initiatives, Mykolaiv - Regional Library). 2018 - 5th International Theater Festival "Traveling Hanger" Lutsk, Ukraine Erase / Paint performance. Group performance, curator Petro Armyanovsky Solo-performance "Decolonizing myself" is strong related with themes of decolonization, personal refugee experience and different types of discrimination in temporary occupied Kherson last year. Performance "Pasta with Sugar" in which I participated as an actor and performer tells about discrimination against seasonal workers on Europe and institutional systemic racism. Plays: 2023, "Comatose", result of Kulttuuriyhdistys Päiväkoti 2023, "Away" - script for short film, based on play " Memel - Dnepr", result of Safe Haven Residency 2022, "The captivity" (Part One") https://www.ukrdramahub.org.ua/play/polon-chastyna-persha "The captivity" (Part Two) - long list of the contemporary Ukrainian drama competition "July Honey 2022" https://www.ukrdramahub.org.ua/play/polon-chastyna-druha 2022, "Memel - Dnepr", result of Menų Zona Residency curated by Darius Vaiсhekauskas, Klaipėda, Lithuania (translation in Lithuanian by Beatrice Belyavtsiv) 2022, play "Loss", result of emergency residency at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art https://www.ukrdramahub.org.ua/play/vtrata 2020 "Yes, Boss" and "New Drama", text - participant in the competition of modern drama "Eurasia 2020" https://www.ukrdramahub.org.ua/play/da-boss 2020, "New Drama" - nomination Choice of the Week, director of the reading and lead actor - Andriy May. https://youtu.be/Di_Yt8WLRi8 https://www.ukrdramahub.org.ua/play/nova-drama 2019, "SJW", shortlist for the Week of Current Play, director of stage reading - Oleksandra Basovska, Lypky Theater https://www.ukrdramahub.org.ua/play/sjw 2018, "O: VOID", shortlist for the Week of Current Play, second place in reading preferences 2017, "Three", stage reading at the Planetarium, Kherson, 2017, dir. Natalia Blok Most my plays related with intersectionality, queer and human rights perspectives: "New Drama" (key themes: intersectionality, transphobia, racism, militaristic rhetoric) "O: VOID" (key themes: domestic violence, abuse, misogyny, militaristic rhetoric, toxic masculinity) "SJW" (key themes: xenophobia, homophobia, self-hatred, toxic masculinity) "Comatose" (key themes: postpartum depression, gaslight, domestic violence) "Yes, boss" (key themes: toxic masculinity, Power and Manipulation in modern capitalistic society Sexual Harassment and Assault Reality vs. Perception Moral Ambiguity Sanity and Mental Health) My plays related with personal refugees experience, volunteering and adapting to new unstable political reality: "The captivity" (Part One) "Memel - Dnepr" Residencies: 2023 - Safe Haven, Helsinki, Finland 2023 - Kulttuuriyhdistys Päiväkoti, Hailuoto, Finland 2022 - Art Residency in Occupation, Kherson, Ukraine, curated by Yuliia Manukyan 2022 - Menų Zona Residency, Klaipėda, Lithuania 2022 - emergency residency at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland 2020 - curator of the residency of modern drama, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, from the support of the NGO "House 48.24" and USAID 2018 - See Beyond Theater Residence, Lviv, Ukraine, organization Institute of Public Initiatives Previously received grants: Klaipėda City Municipality - Six-Month grant for organization of stage reading of stage reading of plays "Captivity", "Memel - Dnepr", Klaipėda drama theater, Lithuania, 2023 Work experiences: 2008 - 2017 worked in the shopping mall "Victoria" as a manager and administrator of a working area. 2017 - 2020 copywriter and content manager at Advertising Agency Evolution, Kherson. January 2020 - New Side copywriter - full-cycle advertising agency: writing video scripts, filling the database of sites - online stores, translations, copywriting texts. 2017 staff critic of the Site about the culture of the South sauce.com.ua http://coyc.com.ua/user/425 From 2018 have own column on the Moviegram website (editor-in-chief Lukyan Galkin) https://moviegram.com.ua/author/artursur/ Since 2018, have a column in the educational magazine "ProStranstvo" (editor in chief Eugenia Seleznyova) https://prostranstvo.media/category/authors/artur-sumarokov/ September 3, 2019 to May 2020 content manager and copywriter of the city news site 0552.ua Kherson; September 2020 - journalist of the city news site 0552. 2020 - freelance author of the site srsly 2020 - Freelance author of Flashforward Magazine Publications: Current Issue, Volume 17 - The Piatra-Neamt Theatre Festival in Romania: 146 Kilometers from Heart to Heart Kherson’s secret art society produces searing visions of life under Russian occupation - The Guardian Un dramaturg ucrainean a săpat un mormânt în curtea teatrului din Piatra Neamț, a pus un sicriu pe scenă și îi avertizează pe români: Atenție la „patrioți”! Iš okupuoto Chersono ištrūkęs dramaturgas naują pjesę rašys Klaipėdoje: pasistengsiu dėl tų, kuriems sovietinės okupacijos patirtis apaugusi mitais - Delfi.lt Artistas de Jersón canalizan el dolor y la esperanza en unas obras expuestas en Leópolis - El Diario Member of the following organizations: 2017 - Member of the independent theater laboratory Totem Center Theater Lab of the Totem Cultural Development Center, Kherson, Ukraine 2018 - Member of NGO "Rezhisser.Org", Kherson, Ukraine