Nina-Marie Gardner is an award-winning American novelist and playwright, currently based in Paris. 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 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 is now airing on Shorts TV. A recipient of the Royal Holloway International Excellence Award and a Crossland Research Fellowship, she holds a PhD in Drama and Theatre and served as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Drama, Theatre & Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London from 2014-2018. She is on the Reader's Panel for the Royal National Theatre in London, and the Colchester Theatre Mercury/ Weinberger Playwriting Award.  

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Contact: nmgard@mac.com