Nina (they/them) is an award winning theatre maker, participatory artist and radical educator. Their work explores different creative tools for social change and is often silly, immersive and collaborative.
In September 2022 Nina started 'Be More Mushroom', their theatre project exploring queerness and fungi which asks: 'what can mushrooms teach us about identity, society and power?'. This will be developed with Dan de la Motte and multiple queer artists as part of a residency at St. Margaret's House, East London (Sept-Dec 2022). Nina recently finished their MA in Applied Theatre from Goldsmiths. Their dissertation, 'Make Music Like Mushrooms/Make Theatre Like Fungi: Principles for a Queer Mycological Methodology', detailed the underlying creative principles for Be More Mushroom.
Nina is an experienced facilitator. Most recently they co-delivered 'Integral Activist Training' (ULEX Sept 2022) in Catalonia. This Summer they have facilitated, 'Make Music Like Mushrooms' at Supernormal Fest (August 2022) a political song writing workshop with F*Choir (July 2022) and 'Queering Everything: An Introduction to Queer Theory and Queer Fungi'. Nina also produced the Rebel Soul's Queer Takeover Day at Shambala (August 2022). programming a whole day dissecting what it means to 'queer' and how we can practically implement 'queering'.
Nina is trained in Theatre of the Oppressed with Jana Sankranti, Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed (2018). They have taught TO for ULEX on Creative Tools for Social Change (Catalonia, April 2022) and have lectured at Queen Mary's, Roehampton University, University of East London and Rose Bruford, They delivered Theatre of the Oppressed for Housing Justice and Theatre of the Oppressed for Renters Rights (Concrete Action and London Renters Union 2019-2021), using theatre to teach eviction resistance and housing rights.
Alongside Emer Mary Morris, Nina is Artistic Director of You Should see the Other Guy Theatre (2014-ongoing), a London based grassroots collective made up of queer and women artists. YSSTOG run creative trainings for individuals and groups working towards social change as well as make political theatre. Nina has co-written and directed YSSTOG's Land of the Three Towers (Camden People's Theatre 2015-2019), a series of devised verbatim musicals which were performed on London housing estates. The plays share different methods of resisting gentrification and regeneration. Land of the Three Towers: Vol I has been published in Radical Housing: Art Struggle and Care (ed, Ana Valencia, 2021) which can be downloaded and ordered here.
They are Artistic Director of Womb with a View (WINNER Best Festival Venue, IAF 2017, WINNER Shambala micro-venues competition 2016) an immersive venue which gives birth to new ideas and an interactive performance which gives birth to YOU. In 2021 Nina received Developing Your Creative Practice Funding to develop this piece and explore the queering of pregnancy and childbirth.
Nina has designed celebrated costumes for award winning companies including Kill the Beast's He Had Hairy Hands (WINNER Peter Brook Festival Award, WINNER Manchester Theatre Awards, BBC Top Pick of the Fringe) and The Boy Who kicked Pigs.
Nina teaches group singing as part of their practice, they sing with their twin sister in 'Kate and Nina Scott', and are a long standing member and organiser of queer feminist collective F*Choir.
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