Creative Team of "The Clear Blue Skies: Diaries from Ukraine"

Scott Illingworth
Scott Illingworth
Co-creator

Directing credits include off-Broadway, regional, and international work including new play collaborations with Lucas Hnath, Mona Mansour, Christina Anderson, Keith Reddin, and Bill Bowers. His work has been seen across the U.S., Europe, South America, and Asia. Scott is the co-founder of SOCIETY Theatre Collective, the author of Exercises for Embodied Actors: Tools for Physical Actioning, and a Fulbright grant recipient. He is Associate Chair of the Graduate Acting Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Oleksandra Olinyk
Oleksandra Olinyk
Co-creator

Oleksandra is the founder, director, and teacher at Actors Lab Ukraine. She teaches acting and movement to both children and adults. Her special interest is working and creating with teenagers. Oleksandra was previously a professor at Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Cinema and Television University and did research as a Fulbright grant recipient at NYU’s Tisch School of Arts. As an actress she has worked in theatres throughout Ukraine and performed in international projects at LaMama, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego.