Nadia’s Theatre Work

 

Nadia’s extensive career in theatre began as a senior high school student, acting and directing in the notable Carlton District with experimental, classic but always challenging plays staged at various venues; The Open Stage, Why Not Theatre, La Mama, Bouverie St Theatre, Playbox and Union House at Melbourne University.  Nadia was an original member of Mad Hat Theatre, the most dynamic improvisation troupe of its era. The troupe adapted the classics, and toured arts festivals around Australia for four years. Some of the works that Nadia directed and/or acted in, were Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding, Louis Nowra’s Night Song, Euripides’ classics, Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Bertolt Brecht, Strindberg, and Aristophanes political comedies, Lysistrata and The Birds.

Nadia says,

“Theatre is a way I investigate my world, it’s a way I explore what it means to be human”.

  • Fern Hill by Michael Tucker, 2019, 59E59 Theaters, New York, NY, USA

  • Masterpieces of the Oral & Intangible Heritage of Humanity by Heather McDonald, 2019, Signature Theatre, Washington, D.C., USA

  • Sex and Other Disturbances by Marisa Smith, 2018, Portland Stage , Maine, USA

  • Sorting Out Rachel by David Williamson, 2018, Ensemble Theatre, New South Wales, Australia

  • Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Annie Baker, 2016, Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne, Australia

  • E-Baby by Jane Cafarella, 2016, Ensemble Theatre

  • Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar, 2016, Melbourne Theatre Company

    • Winner: Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2013

    • Toured Melbourne, Geelong, Brisbane

  • Extinction by Hannie Rayson, 2016, GPAC, Red Stitch, Art Centre Melbourne, Australia

    • Toured Geelong, Melbourne, Brisbane, Australia

  • The Book Club by Roger Hall, 2016, AKA Group, Melbourne, Australia and London, UK

  • The Flick by Annie Baker, 2014, Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne, Australia

    • Winner: Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2014

    • Staged as part of Melbourne International Film Festival at Shebeen (2014)

    • Re-staged due to public demand at Red Stitch’s home theatre (2015)

    • Re-staged by Red Stitch for Queensland Theatre (2017)

  • Out of the Water, by Brooke Berman, 2014, Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne, Australia

  • The Other Place by Sharr White, 2013, Melbourne Theatre Company, Australia

  • Promises, Promises by Neil Simon, 2012, The Production Company, Melbourne, Australia

  • The Aliens by Annie Baker, 2011, Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne, Australia

  • The Gronholm Method by Jordi Galceran Ferrer, 2010, Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne, Australia

  • Three Women in an Ice Cream Cone by Elizabeth Fotheringham, 2010, Phillip Emanuel Productions

  • The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. Adapted by David Parker. 2002- 2003. Malcolm Cooke & Associates and Billy May

  • Miss Bosnia by Louis Nowra, 1996, Melbourne Theatre Company, Australia

  • Cosi by Louis Nowra, 1994, Melbourne Theatre Company, Australia

  • Summer of the Aliens by Louis Nowra, 1992, Melbourne Theatre Company, Australia