Nataliia Ihnatieva, a playwright from Zaporizhzhia, has been translating film scripts for distribution in Ukraine for about four years. During communication with the writer, one immediately feels her deep knowledge, ability to master the words and love for her native language. She has a lot of experience working with words.

For a year and a half, Nataliia has been working at the Young Spectator’s Theater in Zaporizhzhia as a speech technique tutor, before that she worked at Volodymyr Mahar Music and Drama Theatre in Zaporizhzhia. In May this year, the playwright officially joined the writing community—she became a member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine.

One of the most famous films, the script of which she translated for distribution in Ukraine, was “The Whale”.  This film received awards at 2023 Oscars in the nominations: “Best Actor” (Brendan Fraser) and “Best Makeup”.

In total, she already has more than forty edited film scripts and about two dozen translations, including several festival films and excellent cartoons, as well as more than thirty episodes of the famous sitcom “The Big Bang Theory”.