Meet Our Team

Discover the heart and soul of Culbaba Theatre. We are performers, musicians, researchers, volunteers and community members united by shared passion for preserving and reviving Ukrainian cultural heritage through authentic performance and storytelling.

Olena Zdielnikova

Artistic Director, Conductor, Chair & Co-Founder

Luhansk

Iryna Budnyk

Soloist, Treasurer & Co-Founder

Zabolotiv, Ivano-Frankivsk

Nataliia Demianenko

Soloist, Secretary & Co-Founder

Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad

Viktoriia Karpenko

Soloist, Co-Founder

Kyiv

Olena Rudenko

Soloist, Co-Founder

Kyiv

Valentyna Karpenko

Soloist, Co-Founder

Teplik, Vinnytsia

Olena Biela

Soloist, Choreographer, Co-Founder

Avdiivka, Donetsk

Vira Kaliberda

Soloist, Choreographer, Volunteer

Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk

Did You Know?

Culbaba Theatre brought together people who never met before arriving in the UK. And now we can hardly imagine a Saturday without rehearsal together. We also collect Ukrainian folk micro-traditions from different villages and actively incorporate them into our performances and daily lives, keeping these traditions alive and relevant.