Nina-Marie Gardner is an award-winning novelist and playwright. A graduate of Yale University, her short stories, essays and reviews have been published in 3AM Magazine, The Fix, The Frisky, Flavorpill and the anthologies Bedford Square and 3AM London, New York, Paris.
In 2011, her debut novel Sherry & Narcotics was published by Future Fiction London, and the stage adaptation was a finalist for the UK’s prestigious Verity Bargate Award (2014) and subsequently staged in London as part of the Arcola Theatre’s inaugural PlayWROUGHT Festival, directed by Yael Shavit and starring Lucy Ellinson and Michael Colgan. Her plays including The Land, Gabriel and Maggie/Maggie have also been staged at London’s Soho Theatre, The Clapham Omnibus, The BoilerHouse, and the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. She recently collaborated with the director Alex Browning as screenwriter of the short film Speakeasy, which premiered in London at The Hospital Club 100 Awards, and will soon be available on Shorts TV.
As a Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, she taught courses in the Department of Drama and Theatre including Contemporary Adaptation, Culture and Creativity, and Philosophy and the Arts. She holds an MA in creative writing and is currently completing a PhD on adapting women’s literary modernism to the stage. She is a recipient of the Royal Holloway International Excellence Award, and a Crossland Research Fellowship.
Academic profile: http://bit.ly/1GxQ0CF
Contact: nmgard@mac.com
In 2011, her debut novel Sherry & Narcotics was published by Future Fiction London, and the stage adaptation was a finalist for the UK’s prestigious Verity Bargate Award (2014) and subsequently staged in London as part of the Arcola Theatre’s inaugural PlayWROUGHT Festival, directed by Yael Shavit and starring Lucy Ellinson and Michael Colgan. Her plays including The Land, Gabriel and Maggie/Maggie have also been staged at London’s Soho Theatre, The Clapham Omnibus, The BoilerHouse, and the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. She recently collaborated with the director Alex Browning as screenwriter of the short film Speakeasy, which premiered in London at The Hospital Club 100 Awards, and will soon be available on Shorts TV.
As a Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, she taught courses in the Department of Drama and Theatre including Contemporary Adaptation, Culture and Creativity, and Philosophy and the Arts. She holds an MA in creative writing and is currently completing a PhD on adapting women’s literary modernism to the stage. She is a recipient of the Royal Holloway International Excellence Award, and a Crossland Research Fellowship.
Academic profile: http://bit.ly/1GxQ0CF
Contact: nmgard@mac.com
