Kira Mescherska is a teenaged social activist artist who lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. She acts in English and Ukrainian, sings and plays the piano. She and the poet, Dr. Lora-Ellen McKinney met when Lora-Ellen saw her performance in The Suppliants Project: Ukraine. This production was performed at the virtual Theater of War, a social impact company that uses theater as a tool for helping communities address pressing social, physical and emotional health issues. https://www.theaterofwar.com

Kira chose the Animals version of House of the Rising Son as one of her responses to Lora-Ellen’s poem, Set the Captives Free. 

House of the Rising Son was rewritten by Alex Borovenskiy to reflect Russia’s war against Ukraine. Mr. Borovenskiy, the founder of and Kira’s director at the ProEnglish Theatre in Kyiv, Ukraine. https://www.proenglishtheatre.com