Hey! I'm Nina, and I'm a musical theatre composer-lyricist, singer, actor, and producer. I'm based in New York.
I'm originally from Bergen County, New Jersey, where I attended the Bergen County Academies with a concentration in theatre. I graduated summa cum laude from Boston Conservatory at Berklee with a BFA in musical theatre (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.
Previous musicals for which I've done book, music, orchestration and lyrics include “AMERICAN SIREN” (previously known as “SIREN”), which received a full production through Boston Conservatory’s student works program in April 2022 and was an O’Neill NMTC semifinalist the same year; “A Love Story (With Supernatural Roadblocks)”, which appeared in the Emerging Artists Theatre’s New Works Series in 2019 after receiving a reading and workshop; and “Monster”, which was set to appear in the New York Theater Festival in July 2020. This past summer, I was one of ten young songwriters at the inaugural Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriting Intensive at Snow Pond Center for the Arts. I'm a moderator for Maestra Music's Student Maestra affinity group.
Onstage: some of my favorite roles include Julia in Matthew Dunster's adaptation of “1984”, Elle Woods in “Legally Blonde”, the Alto in the Angel City 4 in "City of Angels", and Lady Larken in “Once Upon a Mattress”. I recently made my Boston regional theatre debut as Shelby in SpeakEasy Stage Company's production of The Prom. I've also had the privilege of taking on roles in new works in readings, workshops and first performances, including Lumina in Pamela Winslow-Kashani and Tim Kashani's musical "Winter Lights". I was a Top 10 finalist in Playbill's Search For A Star competition in 2021.
I've both appeared in and produced a number of cabarets around the city, at venues like 54 Below ("The Songs of Nina Osso" - producer; "Acts Of Love: The Songs of Jason Robert Brown" - producer; "54 Sings Steven Universe" - performer) and The Green Room 42 ("You Heard It Here First!" - co-producer with Joseph Thor and Friends; "Leola's Lady Land Lounge" - guest performer, "Dorothy Records" - performer).
To answer the real questions: I'm a Taurus sun, Virgo moon, Leo rising, and INFP-A.
