Nina Hajiyianni
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Nina Hajiyianni is a theatre maker and director whose past work includes professional touring productions for young people, large-scale community plays, experimental opera, and site-specific work in museums and outdoor spaces.
Her work explores total theatre experiences by placing equal emphasis on image, sound, light and the spoken word, as a way of creating new and compelling languages for story telling. By tapping into the creative impulse of the performer and by adopting a collaborate approach; Nina creates visually arresting and meaningful theatre whether working with young people, professional actors and artists or non-professionals. Her work with young people is driven by the pursuit of artistic innovation, believing that what young people bring to the theatre making process has particular value.
Nina has participated in theatre programmes in Belgium, Holland and Japan, where she ran a workshop for young people at the ‘Kijimuna’ festival in Okinawa, 2006. She was short-listed for the Puppet Centre Trust Outstanding Achievement Bursary Award for her work in object theatre and was also short-listed to direct the United Kingdom’s, Holocaust Memorial Day National Event, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007.
Nina has been associate director with renowned CTC Theatre Company based in Darlington, UK and is currently associate director with Action Transport Theatre Company, a leading young people’s and new writing company based in the North West of England.