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Nina’s writing is published in The Killens Review of Arts & Letters; Black Renaissance Noire; Continuum: The Journal of African Diaspora Drama, Theatre, and Performance; A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine Online; Break Beat Poets Vol 2: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Press); Are You Entertained? Black Popular Culture in the 21st Century (Duke University Press); Performance Research Journal (Taylor and Francis); Represent! New Plays for Multicultural Young People (Bloomsbury Press); So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth (Haymarket Press); Black Ecologies Zine (Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice); and tBTR: A Journal of the Black Theatre Network. She is excited about her first collection of writing for performance, The Double: A Choreodrama and a Choreopoem (Kavaya Press). Nina’s choreodramas, choreopoems, and plays include GUTTA BEAUTIFUL(The Warehouse Theatre, The Woolly Mammoth for DC’s Fringe, Abrons Arts Center/Henry Street Settlement, & Little Carib Theatre in Trinidad); ITAGUA MEJI: A Road & A Prayer (Brecht Forum, Alternate Roots, Rutgers University Newark and New Brunswick, The Nuyorican Poets Café); GYPSY & THE BULLY DOOR (The Warehouse Theatre, the former Dumbo Sky); ELIJAHEEN BECOMES WIND (Anacostia Arts Center); CHARISMA AT THE CROSSROADS (Dorothy Young Arts Center); SPARROW(The Langston Hughes House); and A COMPULSION FOR BREATHING (The Schomburg Center and Target Margin Theater). From 2020-2023, Nina was a collaborating writer and performer for the development of Urban Bush Women’s HAINT BLU which premiered for the Junebug Productions season in New Orleans at the André Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice with subsequent premier performances at the Hampton House in Miami, Florida with Live Arts Miami; MassMOCA in The Berkshires with Jacob’s Pillow and Williams College; St. Mary’s Church in Harlem, NY; and at locations in Oak Bluffs and Aquinnah with The Yard in Martha’s Vineyard. Nina also collaborated with Angela’s Pulse for Paloma McGregor’s Building A Better Fishtrap/From the River’s Mouth. And she is honored to continue this collaboration with Angela’s Pulse in Fishtrap’s latest iteration A’we deh ya. Nina also performed in her own video poem created in collaboration with director Toshi Sakai, “Invocation for Josè Antonio Aponte,” which toured nationally and internationally with the “Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom” visual art exhibition. Nina was the recipient of the CUNY-Schomburg Dissertation Fellowship. She is also a former Schomburg Scholar in Residence. She was the recipient of the Institute for Research of the African Diaspora in the Americas Dissertation Fellowship; the Toni Cade Bambara Summer Fellowship; the Center for Humanities Auto-Ethnography and Theater Fellowship; and the Dean K. Harrison Research Fellowship which supported research in Salvador da Bahia. Nina is the former inaugural post doctoral Community Engagement Fellow at The Woodshed Center for Art, Thought, and Culture at Georgetown University’s Racial Justice Institute. She is currently the inaugural Eleanor Traylor Post Doctoral Fellow in Literary and Cultural Theory in the Department of Literature and Writing at Howard University. Nina has taught across disciplines at American University, Howard University, Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn College, Drew University, and for the Beyond Identity Program at City College. She is also co-founder and executive director of Ocean Ana Rising, Inc. (OAR) which has been generously funded with grants from the NEA, The Black Seed, and DC’s Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Nina holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). She also holds a Master of Philosophy from The Graduate Center at CUNY, a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing - Fiction from American University, and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Howard University. 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Workshop facilitators use theater exercises, writing, movement, and visual art-making practices to inspire workshop participants to delve deep into their own reflections and curiosities to create their own expressions through the arts. Workshops are designed with the community to address specific needs and interests. Please contact us for more information about Safe Spaces workshops https://www.oarinc.org/archive-1/gypsy-the-bully-door-4ezhn monthly 0.5 2023-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67fd3f7a322a45048897c265/1744650113643-05X7CWWT6A7LCY9YVJOG/OAR+live+on+stage.PNG Archive - Gypsy & The Bully Door (2011) - Gypsy & The Bully Door Gypsy & The Bully Door was produced at the former Warehouse Theater in Washington, DC in July 2011 in partnership with DC’s Fringe Festival. The play was directed by OAR’s long-time collaborator, Eric Ruffin, artistic director of Howard University’s Theatre Arts program. Gypsy & The Bully Door provided local artists with an opportunity to develop theatre rooted in an emerging Gogo dramaturgy. We hired recent Howard University graduates alongside a team of professional artists from the vibrant DC arts community. The play went on to be produced by the American Theater of Harlem at Dumbo Sky in Dumbo-Brooklyn, New York. It also received extensive script development through the Norman Mailer Center’s August Wilson Blues Poetics workshop, facilitated by scholar, playwright, and director Paul Carter Harrison. https://www.oarinc.org/archive-1/women-on-wednesdays-art-and-culture-5lrjj monthly 0.5 2022-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67fd3f7a322a45048897c265/1744650113657-8L9KVFIXKIGIQTZWT2L8/Capture.PNG Archive - Women on Wednesdays Art and Culture - Women on Wednesdays Art and Culture The Women on Wednesdays Art and Culture Project was co-produced by Ocean Ana Rising, Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative, and the Brecht Forum NYC. Each Wednesday in the month of February, from 7pm to 11pm, featured the phenomenal expressions of women of the African Diaspora in poetry/spoken word, dance, music, song, video, and theater arts. The Women on Wednesdays Arts and Culture Project also included a Teach-In and Healing Cypher for Cultural Workers and facilitated arts residencies with young emerging artists in partnership with allied community organizations. https://www.oarinc.org/archive-1/gutta-beautiful-wxewm monthly 0.5 2022-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67fd3f7a322a45048897c265/1744650113673-AKYMJUG5WAKD27Y6I90A/Gutta+Beautiful.PNG Archive - Gutta Beautiful - Gutta Beautiful Gutta Beautiful was produced at the former Warehouse Theater in Washington, DC in July 2005. Following that workshop production, it was produced for DC’s first Fringe Festival at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre. The play was directed by Eric Ruffin. This was our first experience of developing new work with Howard University Theatre Arts artistic director Eric Ruffin. We also hired recent Howard University graduates as actors in the development and production of the play alongside a team of professional artists from the vibrant DC arts community to create a dynamic show that was later produced by Woodie King Jr’s New Federal Theatre in New York City and by Griot Productions in Woodbrook, Trinidad.