Anastasiya Yevchenko is a Ukrainian director, screenwriter, actor, and producer in theatre and film. She is a current NYU student. Her goal is to create meaningful, innovative and impactful art that will challenge and inspire its viewers.
Anastasiya’s first professional work is the surrealistic short film “If We Had Tomorrow” (2019).
Anastasiya is studying at New York University (2016-present), where she is majoring in Drama BFA, minoring in producing and filmmaking. Throughout her time at NYU, Anastasiya has acted in student productions “Black Masseur” (2016), “Angels in America” (2016), “Absolute Airplane” (2017) and “Reefer Madness Musical” (2017). She has directed extracts from “Earthquakes in London” (2017), “Perfume: the story of a murderer” (2017), “Macbeth” (2017), “Forest Song” (2018), “Hello, Dali!” (2018). Anastasiya has written plays and screenplays during her academic career at NYU.
Anastasiya participated in the Acting Intensive Program at the University of Southern California (2015) and learned different acting techniques, including scene study, movement, voice, on-camera performance. She has also participated in the Summer Intensive Acting Program at Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in New York (2018).
Anastasiya participated in ISTA IB Theatre Symposium (2015), where she collaborated with IB Theatre students from around the world; developed theatre skills from directing to performing; explored world theatre practices and participated in workshops by Frantic Assembly and director William Kerley.
Anastasiya participated as a singer in a unique summer program “Global Orchestra” (2015) that brought together 80 young musicians and singers from around the world to attend the Juilliard workshops on dance, drama, and music. It involved a week of intensive training to perform in a professional concert venue of The DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York.
Anastasiya has graduated Beau Soleil Alpin College International with a Bilingual Diploma of the International Baccalaureate. During her time in Beau Soleil, Anastasiya directed, designed, produced and acted in a musical “Old Songs New” (2015). She was also an actor and co-director in IB Drama productions of “Women in War” (2014), “Five Stages of Love” (2015) and “The Days of This Society Is Numbered” (2015). She has devised a one-person piece based on Jerzy Grotowski techniques called “Captivity” (2016) – it was her Solo Theatre Piece as part of the IB Drama curriculum.
Anastasiya studied in Oleksandriyska Gymnasium in Kyiv and received a Certificate with Honors of Basic General Secondary Education in 2013.
Anastasiya is a Laureate of the National Ukrainian program “Person of The Year 2006” in the nomination “Young Talent of The Year”. Anastasiya holds the title of Little Princess of The World 2006 as part of an international contest in the Dominican Republic.