Contact: nadia.sepsenwol@gmail.com

Acting, AEA

Theater

Cry it Out Adrienne Gene Frankel/Kristen Kelso

Complicity Sima The New Ohio/Ilana Stein

The Mercury Store Resident Company Member Will Frears, artistic director

The Winter’s Tale Camillo Rude Grooms

Tarantula* Harriet/Tarantula M-34/James Rutherford

The Argument Emily The Secret Theatre/Liesel Allen-Yeager

The Seagull Masha Columbia Stages/Jen Pitt

The Winter’s Tale Leontes Columbia Stages/Jen Pitt

The Woman Illusion various Theatre for the New City

Summertime Mimi Columbia Stages/Robin Eriksen

By Rights We Should Be Giants* Maria Lunar Energy/Christopher Diercksen

Three Graces Roxelana The New Ohio/Marci Arlin

Before Placing Me On Your Shelf Z Lunar Energy/Wesleigh Gates

This Call Cannot Be Completed various ERA/Stephen Brackett

Romeo and Juliet Balthasar Classic Stage Company/Tony Speciale

Big Love Lydia Setkani Fest, Brno, Czech Republic/Ulla Wolcz

The Tempest Gonzalo Folkswang Fest, Essen, Germany/Niky Wolcz

Love’s Labor’s Lost Rosaline Four County Players/Betsy Rudelich Tucker

The Wild Party Sally Live Arts/Doug Schneider

Film

Bitsy’s Noir* Dolores (lead) David Zayas Jr.

The Delatores Office Worker (lead) Jenna Bliss

Photoluminescence* Claire (lead) Eddie Lebron

Sandbox Nora (lead) Eddie Lebron

The Greatest Gift Girl 2 (lead) Daniel Bloomberg

*also author of

Workshops

Other People’s Houses by Daniel Aukin and Emily Feldman various roles/dir. Daniel Aukin

First Daughter Suite by Michael John LaChiusa Julie Nixon/The Public Theater

The Amazing Oocytes of Rockland Cartmonet by Lisa Kohn Rockland Cartmonet/Ensemble Studio Theatre

Lulu is Hungry by Claire Kiechel Louise Brooks/Fresh Ground Pepper

A Seagull by Matt Minnicino Nina/The Bushwick Starr

Narrative Podcasts

Windfall, Season One Sylvie (series regular) Apple Podcasts/Bob Raymonda & Christie Donato

Training

Columbia University: MFA

The University of Virginia: BA

William Esper Studios

HB Studios

Acting: Austin Pendleton, Andrei Serban, Anne Bogart, Larry Singer, Joel Rooks, Steve Roath

TV/Film: Marci Phillips, Anson Mount, Rosemary Tichler

Shakespeare: Kristin Linklater, Andrea Haring, Betsy Tucker

Voice/Singing/Dialects: Rebecca Dumaine-Miller, Penny Fuller, Judy Kuhn

Stage Combat: J. Steven White & Adam Rihacek

Movement/Dance: Suzuki, Viewpoints, Clown, Modern, Yoga, Pilates, Cross-Fit

Awards

For Sandbox: Best Actress, Long Island International Film Expo; Best Actress nomination, Cutting Room Film Festival

Skills: singing (soprano/mezzo belt), dialects, writing, stage combat, drivers license

Writing

 

Plays:

2021 Tarantula (full length)

  • It's some sort of global crisis, and Harriet has had a bad time: she's lost her job, her dad, her relationship... and truth be told, she's not real sure who she is. So she takes her Aunt Esther up on an invitation to visit a very special theatre commune, where she'll learn to relinquish her old identity and come up with something new. At first her freedom is a revelation, but the group might be something more sinister...

  • New York City Artist Corps grant from New York Foundation for the Arts, 2021

  • Public staged reading at Maggie’s Garden in Harlem directed by James Rutherford, August 2021

  • Public Zoom reading in January 2021, directed by Wesleigh Gates 

  • Semi-Finalist, Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship, The Juilliard School

2018 Insomnia (full-length)

  • A time-traveling, psychedelic exploration into what happens when a strange, life-shattering illness interrupts an ordinary life. It is about the struggle to live and love and make things, and about what we inherit - whether we like it or not.

  • Produced by Antimatter Collective (www.antimattercollective.org) and directed by Adam Scott Mazer at Hudson Guild Theater, Sept 2018, NYC

 2018 Photoluminescence (20 min short)

  • It's probably the apocalypse. Tricia and Claire have arranged a ride. A short play about friendship and escape

  • Produced by Winterfest at Hudson Guild Theater and directed by Robin Eriksen, February 2018, NYC.

 2017 True Love (5 min short)

  • A play about a woman and her robot boyfriend

  • Produced at Access Theatre and directed by Wesleigh Gates, June 2017,

  • Produced by Bitsy’s Bits at Muchmore’s and directed by Nadia Sepsenwol, December 2017, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC.

2012 By Rights We Should Be Giants (full-length, co-written with Tim Van Dyck)

  • A modernized adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, set in rust-belt Lorain, Ohio over the economic crash of 2008-9.

  • Produced by Lunar Energy Productions and directed by Christopher Diercksen, October 2012, Long Island City, NYC.

Screenplays:

2021 Bitsy’s Noir (short)

  • A Noir parody about a detective, a dangerous woman, and her yippy puppy

  • Produced and directed August 2021, dir. David Zayas Jr. To be released in festivals 2022

  • Austin Film Festival 2021, short screenplay competition second rounder

2020 Photoluminescence (short)

  • Directed by Emmy Award-winner Eddie Lebron, Official Selection, Long Island International Film Festival, Buffalo Dreams Festival 

2017 A Day at the Bark (30 min short)

  • A romantic comedy parody about a woman who meets a man and a magical dog

  • Received public reading and directed by Nadia Sepsenwol at Muchmore’s, June 2017, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC