Anna Kostivna Lypkivska

Hanna Kostivna Lypkivska (; 18 May 1967 – 24 March 2021) was a Ukrainian theatre scholar, PhD in Art Studies, associate professor, and staff member at the .  She taught at the Department of Theatre Studies at the  as well as at the .

She developed a lecture course on Theory of Dramaturgy and special courses on Contemporary Theatrical Avant-Garde, Comparative Analysis of Play and Performance, and Ukrainian Drama Theatre of the Modern Era (1986–2008). She won the Theatre Studies and Theatre Criticism Award in 2011. 

Biography
Hanna Lypkivska is the great-great-granddaughter of Metropolitan , and the granddaughter of actress  and theatre figure .

She was the author of more than 500 articles about modern issues in theatre, society, and media. Her work has appeared in Ukrainian magazines such as Proscenium, , , Kontramarka, Art Line, , and Profil, as well as in international magazines like Teatralnaya Zhizn (Russia) and Theatre (Poland). She has also written for newspapers such as , ''Stolychni Novyny'', , ''24'', and , along with academic collections and websites. Her research has focused on well-known theatre figures like Roman Viktyuk, , and many others.

She worked as a reporter, editor, and literary editor for magazines and newspapers, including Kontramarka, Parade, Fortune, Visti z Ukrainy, and Programma. She was also an editor of books and brochures, and co-wrote scripts for television programs. As a director, she staged the plays: What Did You Lose in Someone Else's Dreams? (Santa Cruz) by  at the , and The Music Friend by Marguerite Duras and The Duenna by  at the .

In 2011 she won the Ukrainian Theatre Studies and Theatre criticism prize of the .

Lypkivska died in Kyiv on 24 March 2021, aged 53 from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine.

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Category:Ukrainian writers
Category:Ukrainian journalists
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Category:Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Kyiv