Nina Raine

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Nina Raine is an English theatre director and playwright, the only daughter of Craig Raine and Ann Pasternak Slater, and a grand niece of the Russian novelist Boris Pasternak.

She graduated from

English Literature
.

Life and career

She won the

Channel Four/Jerwood Space 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

TMA Best Director Award, and Shades by Alia Bano as part of the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers' Festival in 2009, as well as Jumpy by April De Angelis at the Royal Court and in the West End
.

Rabbit, Raine's first work as a dramatist, premiered at the

Brits Off Broadway Festival.[2]

Raine's second play Tribes was produced by the Royal Court in London, in October 2010, directed by Roger Michell and starring Harry Treadaway, Michelle Terry and Stanley Townsend.[3] It had its Australian premiere at the Melbourne Theatre Company in February 2012,[citation needed] and its North American premiere at New York City's Barrow Street Theatre, also in 2012.[4] It was then produced by Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland in February 2015.[5] Tribes is about a deaf son who is raised in a dysfunctional, Jewish, hearing family (Raine is Jewish on her mother's side).[6]

Tiger Country, commissioned by Hampstead Theatre and produced by Alcove Entertainment, opened in January 2011.[7]

Raine directed and dramaturged Behind the Image by

Out of Joint. Directed by Roger Michell, it starred Anna Maxwell Martin, Ben Chaplin and Pip Carter. Her fifth play, Bach & Sons, is a work on the life of Johann Sebastian Bach at the Bridge Theatre, with Simon Russell Beale as the composer in the premiere production.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Theatre review: Rabbit at Old Red Lion". www.britishtheatreguide.info.
  2. ^ Sommer, CurtainUp, Elyse. "Brits Off Broadway 2007 , a CurtainUp report". curtainup.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Levy, Paul (22 October 2010). "Raine's Tribal Instinct Breaks Down the Language Barriers" – via www.wsj.com.
  4. ^ "David Cromer to Direct Nina Raine's Tribes at Barrow Street Theatre".
  5. ^ "2017/18 Season » Artists Repertory Theatre". www.artistsrep.org.
  6. ^ "Comedy-drama 'Tribes' communicates dysfunction of British-Jewish family — Jewish Journal". 13 March 2013.
  7. ^ ", by at - - London UK - more on OffWestEnd.com - Listings and showtimes for over 80 Off West End theatres in London UK". offwestend.com.
  8. ^ "Future Projects – The Bridge Theatre". bridgetheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 21 May 2024.

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