Hey! I'm Nina, and I'm a musical theatre composer-lyricist and performer. I'm based in New York.

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Onstage, I love:​

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Stories that are offbeat and quirky, as a means to getting to something profound

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Stories that use the medium of theater to their advantage - the images, metaphors, spontaneity, and liminality that are specific to our medium

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Music and text that celebrates the human voice: harmony, dissonance, percussiveness, solitude, togetherness. (Choir and a capella are a large part of my background!)

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Stories about ambitious and smart people who find themselves in situations they can’t think their way out of

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Stories about people engaging with forces larger than human control or understanding: outer space, spirituality, science, religion…

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Stories about queer people and queer history 

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Stories that use emotion as a way into usually-intellectual conversations; stories that demonstrate how politics are personal

 

And here's a small sampling of the art that's resonated with me recently:

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Octet, Oratorio for Living Things, Cold War Choir Practice, A Little Night Music, Book of Travelers, How To with John Wilson, A Swim In The Pond In The Rain

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I'm originally from Bergen County, New Jersey, where I attended the Bergen County Academies with a concentration in theatre. I graduated from Boston Conservatory at Berklee with a BFA in musical theatre and a songwriting concentration. I am now pursuing my MFA at NYU for musical theatre writing, where I am my class's ASCAP Foundation Max Dreyfus Award recipient. I am a proud member of AEA and the Dramatist's Guild.

 

I am both a dog and a cat person. (Grew up with incredible dogs, recently discovered the majesty of cats.)

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