Veteran Programme Resident 2026

Razom Relief - Winter-Spring 2026 1 January – 31 March 2026

After demobilisation from the military, Sarnatska created two shows on Hromadske Radio featuring veterans and active service members, and is currently hosting a new original project on Kyiv FM radio. She has also defended her dissertation on preventing gender-based violence. In 2024–2025, her plays won three Ukrainian playwriting competitions and two international ones, and were staged in theatres.

Sarnatska was a resident at the Theatre of Playwrights and published her first book, Who United Love and Courage. Her experience of war is part of a broader reality that must be documented, rethought, and made visible.

“Within the framework of the Veterans’ Fellowship, I want to realise a theatrical project about finding a common language — one that brings together different experiences. It will be a performance about strength and overcoming fear. The fellowship will also support my work on the radio: I host an author-led programme about veterans and people who bring victory closer in different ways, as well as my work on a book about society at war in its truthful manifestations. The book documents reality and speaks to the reader about the ethics of our actions in times of crisis.”
Alina Sarnatska

Alina Sarnatska

Alina Sarnatska (Kyiv, Ukraine) is a writer, radio host, PhD in social work and war veteran. From March 2022 to July 2024, Alina Sarnatska served as a combat medic in the infantry. Before the full-scale invasion, she worked in the civil society sector, pursued doctoral studies, and wrote texts.

In 2025, she was a Jean-Jacques Rousseau Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. That same year, she was a finalist for the Aurora Drama Award (Poland), received two awards at the ATYPOWO Festival in Wrocław, and won the Drama.ua competition (Ukraine). In 2024, she was awarded the Lipnevyi Med Prize and the Week of Contemporary Plays Prize (both in Ukraine), and held a VILNO fellowship (Other Education / Robert Bosch Stiftung). In 2022, she founded Teplonosiї, a charitable organization.