Alina Sarnatska is the author of nine plays. Her work has been produced and presented by Schauspiel Stuttgart (Germany), The Royal Dramatic Theatre (Sweden), the Kyiv National Academic Molodyy Theatre, the Lesya Ukrainka Academic Theatre, the Maria Zankovetska National Academic Ukrainian Drama Theatre, the Les Kurbas Lviv Academic Theatre, and the Theatre of Playwrights (Ukraine). Her work has been presented internationally through staged readings in the United States at Yale University, Flamboyan Theater (New York City), Hudson Theatre and Warriors for Peace Theatre (Los Angeles), Spooky Action Theater and Ukraine House (Washington, D.C.), and the Consulate General of Ukraine in San Francisco, as well as at Literaturhaus Stuttgart (Germany) and the Grotowski Institute (Warsaw, Poland).
Plays
Menstruation
Three women tell the war through their bodies—bleeding, nursing, desiring—while the headlines look elsewhere.
Fat (2025)
A multigenerational tale about love, women’s bodies, and the hunger history leaves inside us.
The Waiting Trib (2025)
A choral portrait of women who live in the long weather of waiting—between sirens, phone calls, and the hope that never sleeps.
One of the best plays about women in war
Balance (2024)
A woman veteran recounts the war and searches for a way to preserve herself in a world where everything seems broken.
Unit of Love (2025)
A surreal, darkly comic play about a high school senior in occupied Izium, first love, and the invisible threads that bind people to the land they call home.