Nina Louise Morrison

Nina Louise Morrison is a Boston-based playwright, director and teacher with an MFA from Columbia University. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow, Huntington Playwriting Fellow alumnus at the Huntington Theatre Company, winner of the 2016 Boston Project commission at SpeakEasy Stage Company, a Company One Affiliate Playwright, a core member of the devising company Project: Project, and a member of Rhombus writers. Her plays have been workshopped, read, and produced by Company One, Fresh Ink Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Flat Earth Theatre, Kitchen Theatre Company, Open Theatre Project, SLAM Boston, the Boston One Minute Play Festival among others. 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 Pew Center for Arts and Heritage's Philadelphia Theater Initiative. She also trained as an actor 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 playwriting at Northeastern University, Grub Street writing center, and playwriting and screenwriting at University of New Hampshire. www.ninalouisemorrison.com