Ukrainian theater actress, Honored Artist of Ukraine (1995). Solo vocalist, stage speech teacher at the Kyiv Municipal Academy of Circus and Variety Arts.
Biography.
Kateryna Kostroba was born on April 6, 1954, in the village of Buniv, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. Her mother and father divorced, and soon Kateryna (née Lysiak) moved with her father and stepmother to the city of Chervonohrad, Lviv region.
From a young age, Kateryna Lysiak was fond of music, singing and playing the bandura. She performed at the People's Theater.
In 1970, after graduating from high school, she came to Kyiv, where she entered and graduated from the Kyiv Opera Studio, majoring in solo vocalist. Immediately after graduation, she entered the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv State Theater Institute (KDITM). After graduating from KDITM, she was invited as a soloist vocalist to the Crimean Ukrainian Music Theater in Simferopol, Crimea, where she worked for over 20 years.
Family.
She is married. Her husband Kostrob Ivan Ivanovych is a theater actor and director.
Kostroba's son Ivan Ivanovych, an actor, director, and TV presenter, works as a news anchor on the First National TV Channel.
Since 2000, Kateryna Kostroba has been living and working in Kyiv.
Creative activity
Over the years of working as a leading actress of the Crimean Ukrainian Musical Theater, Kateryna Kostrobas has played more than 150 diverse roles in musical and dramatic performances. The most famous roles are in the plays "Notre Dame de Paris", "The Bat", "Sevastopol Waltz", "My Fair Lady".
In 1994, together with her husband, actor and director Ivan Kostroba, she founded the mono-theater (Theater in the Foyer) on the small stage of the theater.
As an actress of the Theater in the Foyer, she played two roles that cemented her status as an outstanding dramatic actress - the role of Isadora Duncan in the one-woman show The Three Lives of Isadora Duncan (1994) and the role of Roksolana in the play of the same name based on the novel by Pavlo Zahrebelny. For her role as Roksolana, she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine.
Kateryna Kostroba (Lysiak) is also a laureate of the State Prize of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and a laureate of the Lesya Ukrainka All-Ukrainian Competition of Professional Readers.
Teaching activity
Since 2000, Kateryna Kostroba has been working as a lecturer and methodologist of stage speech at the departments of stage speech at the Kyiv Municipal Academy of Circus and Variety Arts and the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. She has developed her own teaching methodology. She has trained dozens of outstanding artists, both dramatic and vocal soloists. Kateryna Kostroba's alumni include Maria Yaremchuk, Svitlana Tarabarova, Natalia Mohylevska, Oleksandr Panayotov and other well-known Ukrainian performers.
