Nadia Sepsenwol is a writer/performer living in New York City, whose work is about the intersection of trauma and identity. Her most recent play Tarantula received a grant from New York Foundation for the Arts in August 2021, and was performed at Maggie’s Garden in Harlem, NYC under the direction of James Rutherford. She has also worked as writer’s assistant to playwright David Adjmi, on his Tony award winning play Stereophonic.
Nadia was a resident actor at The Mercury Store, an incubator of new work under the artistic directorship of Broadway director Will Frears, 2021-22. Her performance in Emmy-award winning filmmaker Eddie Lebron’s indie sci fi film Sandbox garnered her a Best Actress award at the Long Island International Film Expo, and she has performed and workshopped new plays with companies such as The Public Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Classic Stage Company. She wrote and stars in the short film Bitsy’s Noir, which was a semi-finalist for Austin Film Festival’s short script prize, and was released in festivals in 2022. She has a BA in Comparative Literature from The University of Virginia and an MFA in Acting from Columbia University School of the Arts, and has a tattoo of a mustachioed octopus on her right shoulder. Up next: James Rutherford’s Very Fine People at LaMama Etc, adapted from the Sines v. Kessler civil trial.