Nina Morrison
Newburyport, MA
Nina Louise Morrison is a playwright, director and actor with an MFA from Columbia University. She is a Huntington Theatre Company Playwriting Fellow, a Richard
Biography

Nina Louise Morrison is a playwright, director and actor with an MFA from Columbia University. She is a Huntington Theatre Company Playwriting Fellow, and a core member of the devising company Project: Project, Rhombus writing group, and Interim Writers’ Accomplice. Her plays have been read and produced by Company One, Fresh Ink Theatre, 20% Theatre Company, Kitchen Theatre Company, Saltbox Theatre, Our Voices, WOW, Café, SLAM Boston, Wax Wings, Bostonia Bohemia, and the One-Minute Play Festival.  She was a semi-finalist for the 2014 National Playwrights Conference and she is the recipient of a Richard Rodgers Fellowship and a Shubert Foundation grant. Before moving to Boston, Nina was the Senior Program Associate at the Philadelphia Theater Initiative. She trained at the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, the New Actors Workshop, and received her BA from Oberlin College.  She currently teaches at the University of New Hampshire, Mount Ida College, Champlain College Young Writers Conference and Grub Street writing center. 

Successes

Nina Louise Morrison has been commissioned by SpeakEasy Stage Company to write "Born Naked" for the inaugural Boston Project, with a workshop and staged reading in February 2016.  www.speakeasystage.com/the-boston-project/