Nina is a transatlantic actor/director/producer collaborating on theatre, opera and film projects. She has a BFA in Acting (Drama Centre London) and an MFA in Directing (The New School). Her work is greatly influenced by two passions, movement as a form of storytelling and the strength of documentary art to fundamentally change our understanding of the world. Her work weaves real voices, live soundscapes and movement to create honest but unnatural vehicles for change. Notable examples of that in her work are: The Connection, a play meshing live jazz/sound within a documentary style 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’, How to Shit in Public, 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.
