Nina is a transatlantic actor/director/producer and collaborator on theatre, opera and film projects. She gained a BFA in Acting from Drama Centre London and an MFA in Directing from The New School of Drama. Her work is greatly influenced by two life long passions: movement and documentary. By mixing and threading these forms together we can create powerful art that to changes our understanding of the world. Her work weaves interviews, recordings, new writing and live soundscapes with movement and physical exploration to create honest and exciting vehicles for change. Notable examples of that in her work are: The Connection, a play meshing live jazz/sound within a documentary play; Losing Control, a new opera series investigating the historic/current struggle for reproductive rights; Primordial, a performance play written using verbatim interviews; an upcoming ‘cabaret’, The wHole Story aiming to reshape the birthing narrative.
Her personal ambition focuses on changing the rhetoric associated with gender and re-writing the narratives these labels consciously or subconsciously chain us to. Never comfortable with the role created for her by previous generations, or the complicity of her own, she is inspired to reshape the landscape for the next. She identifies as half woman, half man. Half Londoner, half Brooklinite. Half fearless, half terrified.
