Nina Raine

Nina Raine is an English theatre director and playwright, and the only daughter of the poet Craig Raine.

She graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1998 with a First in English Literature.

Career

She won the Channel Four/Jerwood Spaces Young Regional Theatre Director bursary in 2000 to train as a director at the Royal Court Theatre where she assisted on a number of plays including My Zinc Bed, Mouth to Mouth, Presence and Fucking Games.

She has directed plays in several other theatres since then, including Unprotected at the Liverpool Everyman and the Edinburgh Festival in 2006, for which she won the TMA Best Director Award, and Shades by Alia Bano as part of the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers' Festival in 2009.

Rabbit, Raine's first work as a dramatist, premiered at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London in summer 2006.^[1] The play, which she also directed, transferred to the Trafalgar Studios later that autumn.

She won both the 2006 Evening Standard's Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright and Most Promising Playwright Award at the 2006 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards.

Rabbit was performed in New York in June 2007 at the Brits off Broadway Festival.^[2] Meanwhile, Raine has completed her second play Tribes, which was produced by the Royal Court Theatre in London, in October 2010,^[3] and has written another play Tiger Country, commissioned by Hampstead Theatre, produced by Alcove Entertainment and opening in January 2011.^[4]

She directed and dramaturged Behind the Image by Alia Bano, which premiered at the Royal Court's 2008 Rough Cuts Season.

References

1. ^ British Theatre Guide review
2. ^ Curtain Up website
3. ^ Wall Street Journal
4. ^ Off West End.com

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