EVGENY IONOV

Screenwriter · Playwright · Narrative Designer

ion8off@gmail.com · LinkedIn

PROFILE
Screenwriter, playwright and narrative designer with professional experience across games, theatre and film. Skilled in character-driven storytelling, dialogue, narrative structure, adaptations and interactive narrative. Professional theatre work includes commissioned and original plays staged in Kazakhstan, Russia and Germany.
GAME WRITING & NARRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Project: “Kiosk on Lenin Street” / «Ларёк на улице Ленина» · Part-time
• Develop short narrative arcs for existing characters.
• Write dialogue scenes that reveal character, advance local storylines and fit the established tone of the project.
• Worked as a narrative designer on game projects in a professional studio environment.

SELECTED GAME PROJECT
Oloid — Screenwriter
Four-episode mystical visual novel with psychological horror elements. Worked on the story, characters, dialogue and overall narrative structure.
oloid-game.ru

SELECTED THEATRE WORK
“Ilyusha” (2025) — commissioned adaptation of Nikolai Leskov’s “The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea”; staged at Dominanta Theatre, Gubakha.
“Snow White” (2025) — commissioned children’s play; staged at S. Seifullin Theatre, Karaganda.
“Viva Magenta” (2024) — original dramedy / dystopia; shortlisted for the “First Reading” playwriting competition.
“Awakening” (2024) — commissioned drama based on the Epic of Gilgamesh; staged at Total Theatre, Almaty.
“Demons” (2021) — commissioned adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel; staged at Lensovet Theatre, St. Petersburg.
“The Girl Without a Face” (2021) — original fantasy play for children and teenagers; staged at KukLab, Moscow; also presented in theatre laboratories and readings.
“Neue Welt / Neue Welt 2: Hoffnung” (2018 / 2021) — co-written for the Zwischenraum project; staged in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

SELECTED FILM WORK
“Sinitsa” — Co-writer.
“Psychopathy” — Script doctor; directed by Anton Karavaev.
“V-vodu” (2017) — Co-writer; short film directed by Edgar Zakaryan; participant in the 2018 “Saint Anna” festival, organizers’ prize.
“About Snowflakes” (2019) — Author of the play adapted into a VGIK graduation short film; directed by Varya Bergelson.
“About Snowflakes and Metal” (2019) — Screenwriter; documentary film directed by Orkhan Abulov.

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Expert — “Show Case” performance festival — Kosmos Theatre, Tyumen · 2021.
Reader — “First Reading” playwriting competition — 2021.

EDUCATION
Workshop of N. S. Skorokhod

CORE SKILLS
Game writing · Dialogue writing · Character arcs · Narrative structure · Interactive narrative · Adaptation · Playwriting · Screenwriting · Script doctoring

ADDITIONAL SKILLS & TOOLS
• Music composition for games and narrative projects
• Basic 3D workflow in Blender
• Familiarity with Unity
• Experience with Articy:Draft

LANGUAGES
Russian — Native
English — Pre-Intermediate (reading/listening)