Marianna Kotelevska

Visual Storyteller · Show Creator · Art Director

I build immersive narrative worlds that audiences choose to live in — and return to, week after week. My work spans interactive reality shows, dark fantasy visual fiction, and fashion editorial across multiple visual genres, each executed with the same discipline: original scripts, character arcs, precise visual direction, and community mechanics.

With a background in psychology and 12 years of visual content experience, I operate across the full creative pipeline — writer, director, art director, photographer, show runner — solo and on schedule.

modelmarien@gmail.com
@marianna.dolls
Kyiv, Ukraine · Open to Remote
LinkedIn

127K+

Organic monthly reach

20,600

Monthly interactions

300–1100

Likes per post · zero paid promotion

Flagship
Projects

Show Creation

Original IP

Between Two Worlds

Between Two Worlds In Development

Original IP · Dark Fantasy / Contemporary Drama · 2026

ScreenwriterShow Creator World BuilderInteractive Format Original ProseArt Director

"He came as a hunter. She stood between the roots of an oak — and he forgot why he had come. Their clans had not spoken in centuries. Their hearts did not ask permission."

A multi-arc narrative built on one of the oldest dramatic engines in storytelling: two people who should not exist in the same world — and cannot exist without each other. A werewolf from the Clan of the Grey Wolf. A dark elven princess of the Golden Moon. What makes this IP more than a love story is its architecture. The emotional core is universal. The world is original. The format is designed to grow.

Act I

The Forest

Ancient woodland where moss remembers the names of gods. Two archetypes meet — the hunter who forgets why he came, the princess who was never supposed to look his way. The clans rage. The forest watches.

Forbidden love as structural hook — the audience cannot look away because it knows they cannot be together.

Act II

The Price

An ancient forest witch can help them — but magic always has a cost. They will move into the modern human world. No clans. No laws. No obstacles. But they will not remember who they are — or each other. They choose to pay it.

The "price" reframes Act I retroactively — every tender moment becomes a goodbye the audience didn't know they were watching.

Act III

The Human World

An interactive serial. Two strangers in an ordinary city. Each episode, the audience votes: where they go, who approaches first, what happens next. The story moves through its audience, not past them.

The viewers become the memory the protagonists lost — they know what the characters were made to forget.

The Dream Layer

Between the Worlds

Once they meet — the dreams begin. She is an elven princess again. He wears the wolf's cloak. Two worlds run in parallel. Audience votes influence both tracks — what happens in daylight, and what they dream at night.

The subconscious remembers what the mind was made to forget — a dual-track narrative across both registers.

The finale: they fall in love again — as humans, freely. The wedding they plan gravitates toward forest imagery neither of them can explain. Something inside whispers what their minds no longer know. The last frame: the forest. It was always watching.

Multi-season serial Audience voting · both tracks Original literary prose Expandable universe 1/6 scale · location photography Two aesthetic registers

Hero

Series

Forest

The Bachelor — Doll Edition Realised

Solo Production · Instagram · 2024 · #bachelor_doll_2024

Show CreatorScriptwriter DirectorProduction Designer PhotographerCommunity Manager

A fully original interactive reality show — 1 bachelor, 12 contestants, 8 weekly episodes over 2 months, zero missed deadlines. Each episode: scripted dates, original dialogue, emotional arcs, live audience elimination. Viewers voted weekly. The winning couple became permanent community figures — their wedding is planned for 2026.

Episodes

~100

Slides / ep.

800+

Assets

636

Peak likes

Wrote original scripts: character dialogue, date scenarios, elimination narratives — addressing real relationship dynamics that resonated with a predominantly female audience
Designed a weekly colour palette: each episode carried a unified visual identity through costume, set, and location
Built appointment viewing — audiences described waiting for Friday episodes; community members sent physical gifts and handmade costumes for the finale
Wrote post-season character epilogues for all contestants, extending the narrative world beyond the finale

Poster

Collage

Top Model — Doll Edition Realised

Show Creator & Executive Producer · 3-Person Creative Team · Instagram · 2024

Show CreatorExecutive Producer Creative DirectorHost Contributing AuthorPhotographer

Inspired by global fashion competition formats — reimagined in 1/6 scale. No precedent in the Ukrainian doll community. A legendary top model opens casting to 15 contestants — each with a distinct look, background, and story. Weekly themed challenges: Save the Planet, National Fashion Week, The Orient, The Great Gatsby — five fully styled looks, original photography, and a complete visual narrative per week.

Three contributing authors, each responsible for their own contestants. Marianna originated the concept, led production, hosted the show, and competed simultaneously. Each Saturday, host Vanessa announced eliminations. Four finalists. Three final themes. Audience voted for the winner.

Originated the format and led a 3-person creative team across the full season
Weekly brief: 5 styled looks + editorial photography per author, one week turnaround
Themes spanned fashion, cultural, historical and conceptual registers
Live audience voting drove every elimination — building week-on-week dramatic tension
Winner received a doll-scale convertible as the season's grand prize

Hero

Collage

Visual
Range

The Range

The range is not a genre. It is a disposition — the ability to enter any world and make it feel inevitable.

"After her projects, people stopped being afraid to collaborate. Her formats became the template." — Ukrainian doll community, 2023–2025

Other
Projects

Format Library

Beauty Pageant

3-stage competition with live broadcasts, audience voting, and brand sponsorship. Hosted and produced solo. Full event production from casting to finale.

Diary of Musia

Interactive story series in Instagram Stories where audience votes determined the next chapter. Branching narrative, real-time co-authorship.

Summer Festivals

Annual open-call community events. Each creator claimed a unique character concept. Community architecture at scale across the Ukrainian doll community.

Monthly Challenges

Originated the collaborative challenge format in the Ukrainian doll community. Formats replicated widely. Established the norm of joint creative projects.

Skills

What I Bring

Storytelling & Writing

Original fiction & character voice
Narrative arc & season structure
World-building & lore
Audience engagement mechanics
Episodic pacing & cliffhangers
Literary prose (published)
Post-season world extension

Visual Production

Art direction across 10+ genres
Set design & prop styling
Handcrafted miniature props
Costume & character design
Night & low-light photography
Digital compositing
iPhone 15 Pro Max (studio + location)

Production & Community

Solo show production (end-to-end)
Weekly deadline management
Multi-creator coordination
Live broadcast hosting
Audience voting & interactivity
Community event architecture
Format design & replication

Background

Experience

Psychology degree (Honours) — Dnipro Institute of MAUP, 2006–2011. Understanding of audience behaviour, emotional dynamics, and social narrative underpins all project design.
12 years in visual commerce — Built and operated a silver jewellery online store independently from zero to stable revenue, managing full content, sales, and client cycle.
3 years as independent content creator — Grew @marianna.dolls from zero to 6,000+ followers organically in a niche vertical, generating 117K+ monthly reach with zero paid promotion.