Olena Chepurna was born on March 25, 1986 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. As a translator and English teacher by profession, she has always been interested in literature and journalism. In 2014, she opened Olena Chepurna Language School, having developed a methodology for teaching the English language based on movies, TV-Series, subtitles, and scripts for them. She enrolled in a screenwriting school with an idea for a sitcom that could help to learn English and an animated family movie. Inspired by her Professor, she decided to pursue a career as a screenwriter.