Nataliia Zarytska

Born in 1985 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Nataliia Zarytska is a playwright, educator, and agribusiness analyst based in Ukraine. She holds a master’s degree with distinction in higher education pedagogy from National M. P. Drahomanov Pedagogical University in Kyiv (2006–2007) and a master’s degree in enterprise economics from Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University (2009–2010). She taught economics and management at Kyiv National Economic University for thirteen years and English at a school for three years.

Zarytska is a cofounder and chair of Women of Steel, an organization advocating for Ukrainian prisoners of war and their families. Her documentary writing combines testimony and verbatim dialogue to explore women’s experiences of war, captivity, and return. In 2025, she trained in playwriting at the Veterans Theater.

Her debut play, Beyond the Line, won the Week of Contemporary Play competition and was shortlisted for the July Honey Prize. It had a staged reading at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater in Kyiv in 2025 and premiered internationally at Divadlo Komedie in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2026. She is currently developing the satire Eggs of Unity.