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Nina Morrison

Lecturer
Phone: (603) 862-4060
Office: Theatre & Dance, Paul Creative Arts Center, Durham, NH 03824

Nina Louise Morrison is a&nbsp;Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow, Huntington Playwriting Fellow alumnus,&nbsp;and winner of the Boston Project at SpeakEasy Stage Company. &nbsp;&nbsp;Her most recent play&nbsp;The Vault&nbsp;is a ecogothic thriller about the Global Seed Vault originally developed in the Greenhouse Playlab, a collaboration between Flat Earth Theatre Company and the Boston Museum of Science.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Other plays, including Forever Home, Born Naked, and Google Doll, have been developed by the&nbsp;Huntington Theatre Company, Project: Project, Fresh Ink Theatre Company, Company One, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Flat Earth Theatre Company, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Rhombus, and many others. She is a Richard Rodgers Fellow, a Shubert Foundation grantee, and a semi-finalist for the National Playwrights Conference.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>She earned her MFA at Columbia University, and also trained at the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, the New Actors Workshop, and Oberlin College.<br>She teaches playwriting, screenwriting, and Intro to Theatre at&nbsp;University of New Hampshire, and has also taught playwriting at Grub Street and Northeastern University. <br><a href="http://www.ninalouisemorrison.com">www.ninalouisemorrison.com</a&gt;

Courses Taught

  • ENGL 625A: Screenwriting
  • THDA 435: Introduction to Theatre
  • THDA 436: History of Theatre I
  • THDA 438: History of Theatre II
  • THDA 444A: Hon/What's Old Becomes New
  • THDA 589: Practicum/Performance
  • THDA 640W: Playwriting

Education

  • M.F.A., Dramatic/Theatre Arts, Columbia University
  • B.A., Oberlin College

Research Interests

  • Devised performance
  • Dramatic literature
  • Dramaturgy
  • Playwriting