Nina Fry

Nina Nina is a transatlantic actor/director/producer. She gained a BFA in Acting from Drama Centre London and an MFA in Directing from The New School of Drama. The art she creates explores the dissonance between society's idealization of the ‘powerful woman’ and the limitations that owning this title chains us to. The conflicting emotions of AWE and FEAR she experiences when trying to embrace her own sense of womanhood. ‘How to Shit in Public’, is an audio/visual experience that takes place inside an outhouse. A glowing, UFO like mothership toilet in the middle of a dark forest. You enter, lock the door and put on headphones. The sound and lightscape will weave interviews, live recordings, written text, found text, opera and other source materials to take the audience on a journey to discover what their experience as a fetus may have been like. Along the way, they will learn about the dark history of birth in this country and the bright future we can collectively help to build.

Nina is a transatlantic actor/director/producer. She gained a BFA in Acting from Drama Centre London and an MFA in Directing from The New School of Drama. The art she creates, explores the dissonance between society's idealization of the 'powerful woman' and the limitations that owning this title chains us to. The conflicting emotions of AWE and FEAR she experiences when trying to embrace her own sense of womanhood. Her work begins within found or created documentary material. She then explores those realities through 'artistic magic'. What form each work takes, is part of her process. Determined to find the frame that best serves the source material and limitations of the project. She has worked in film, podcast, cabaret theatre, opera, plays, movement, soundscapes and more. Her work is greatly influenced by two life long passions: movement and documentary. By mixing and threading these forms together, she creates truthful magic that illuminates the female experience. Notable examples of 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 Hole Story: A Docu-Cabaret 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.