Vladlena Sviatash

Vladlena Sviatash has been a member of the ensemble at Theater & Orchester Heidelberg since 2022.

She was born in 1992 and trained as an actress at the Kharkiv National University of Arts, graduating in 2014. Since 2011, she has worked at the Kharkiv State Academic Ukrainian Drama Theatre. There she played leading roles in productions of classical, modern, Ukrainian and European plays. She has worked with, amongst others, the Polish director Andrzej Szczytko. Vladlena Sviatash has taken part in international festivals, including the Festiwal Kultury Ukrainska Wiosna 2014 (Poznań, Poland), East-West (Kraków, Poland) and Theatrical Marathon (Sombor, Serbia). She received the Best Female Role award at the East-West International Festival (Krakow, Poland, 2021) for her role as Zinka in »Love« by Marko Kropyvnytskyi.

At Theater & Orchester Heidelberg, Vladlena Sviatash has appeared in numerous productions, including »Where You Come From« and »When the Widow Wants Someone To Talk to Her, She Puts the Watering Can on the Grave with the Spout Facing Forward« based on Saša Stanišić, and «Auf der andern Seite des Monds« based on Hilde Domin. Her solo piece »Surviving as a Ukrainian« by Anastasiia Kosodii was invited to the 12th Festival Politik im Freien Theater in Leipzig in 2025.