ANASTASIA LEVKUN

Anastasia is a Ukrainian director, actor, and writer currently pursuing an MFA in Theatre for Youth and Community at Arizona State University. Her artistic practice lies at the intersection of community-based theatre, refugee narratives, and devised performance.

As both a Ukrainian refugee and theatre maker, she creates story-driven work that amplifies the voices of displaced people while exploring questions of belonging, resilience, and memory.

Her play Home, which reflects on family life in Ukraine at the beginning of the full-scale war in 2022, was presented at Orionteatern in Sweden and later directed by Anastasia at the ASU Fringe Festival.

Her directing work includes Home at the ASU Fringe Festival, Raised in War at the Herberger Theater Center, and Lost Boys Found at the ASU Kerr Theater.

She performed in The Clear Blue Skies: Diaries from Ukraine, a verbatim theatre project created from over 80 hours of audio diaries recorded by students from her acting school in Ukraine, Actors Lab.In

‍While We Wait, Anastasia serves as a main collaborator, writer, and actor. Drawing on interviews with Ukrainian community members in Arizona, Ukraine, and abroad, she gathers a wide range of stories and perspectives, tracing both differences and shared threads. The result is a devised work that weaves her own story together with those of many other Ukrainians to explore resilience, how people endure war, displacement, and the ongoing challenges that follow.