Ep 2: Nabra Nelson - Nobody's Path Can Be Your Path

What To Expect In This Episode:The valuable impact real hands-on education has on transitioning into professional work.Connections between physics and directing.Thinking of a directors work as community engagement.Navigating a busy pandemic as an administrator in senior leadership at an arts organization.Dabbling in directing for screen– finding precision through thinking cinematically.Perspectives from a newly appointed Artistic DirectorNeeding tried and true directors and acknowledging the lack of pipeline.Getting inside other director’s visions and processes.Agency of directors and playwrights when building relationships with producing organizations.The higherarchy of the directing landscape in the American Theatre.About The GuestNabra Nelson is the Artistic Director of Golden Thread Productions located in San Francisco. She is a multi-disciplinary theater maker from Nubia, Egypt, and California, with over a decade of experience as a director, administrator, writer, consultant, dramaturg, and teaching artist. She leads the Nubian Foundation for Preserving a Cultural Heritage, is a founding company member of Dunya Productions, and Heard Space Arts Collective, Board Member of the MENA Theater Makers Alliance, co-founder of HERitage emBODYment, company member of Dancing Earth, and is the co-host of the Kunafa & Shay Theater Podcast. Awards and recognitions include the New England Foundation for the Arts National Theatre Project, Dramatists Guild Foundation National Playwriting Fellowship, New Arab American Theater Works’ Inaugural Playwriting Cohort, 4Culture Project Grant, Map Fund Artist Award, Wisconsin Veterans Chamber of Commerce Nonprofit Partner of the Year, and Agenda Communicating the Arts 30 Under 30. Her scholarship has been published by Routledge, Bloomsbury, Johns Hopkins University Press, The Gemsbok, and the Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal. Her plays have been produced and developed in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Milwaukee, Santa Barbara, Portland, and Minneapolis.Nabra's Shared Resource⭐️ Pages 136 - 142 of Augusto Boal’s Theatre Of The Oppressed (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2011. First Edition) Get The Book Here ⭐️LinksNabra Nelson’s WebsiteLearn more about Nabra’s playwrighting work: New Play ExchangeListen to Nabra’s Podcast: Kunafa and Shay on HowlRound Theatre CommonsGolden Thread Productions [San Francisco, CA] is the first American theatre company devoted to producing passionate and provocative plays from or about the Middle East that celebrate the multiplicity of its perspectives and identities.MENA Theater Makers Alliance: amplifies the voices of Middle Eastern and North African theater makers and expands how stories from and about those communities are told on U.S. stages.