Nina Wise is known for her provocative and original performance works. Her pieces have garnered seven Bay Area Critics' Circle Awards, and she has received, among other prestigious honors, three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Her written pieces have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Nina lives in San Rafael, California. Reviews/Articles about Nina: The Village Voice Yoga Journal San Francisco Tribune (in Spanish) Common Ground Selected Performances and Presentations 1999-2007 2007 The Kepler Project: When Science Lost the Soul A play by Nina Wise with Ralph Abraham and D.W. Jacobs A staged reading sponsored by the River Stage Theater Company, Sacramento Selected Solo Performances Poetry For Water 142 Throckmorton, Mill Valley Poetry for Water Larkspur Café Theater, Larkspur Inquiring Mind Benefit Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre Tell It On A Tuesday Julia Morgan Center for the Arts, Berkeley Motion Commotion Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastapol Now What? Brilliant Talk, Enlightening Theater Studio Rasa, Berkeley Nina improvising Occidental Center for the Arts, Occidental The Vagina Monologues Jewish Community Center, San Rafael 2007 New Year’s Eve: Another Year, Didn’t We Just have One? Spirit Rock, Woodacre 2006 The Kepler Project: When Science Lost the Soul A play by Nina Wise with Ralph Abraham and D.W. Jacobs A staged reading sponsored by the Bay Area Playwrights Foundation The Magic Theater, San Francisco Solo Performance Women Activists Retreat The Crossings, Austin, TX New Year’s Eve: In with the New, Out with the Old Spirit Rock, Woodacre, CA 2005 Now What? Nina Wise and guests Theater Artaud, San Francisco For What Do We Give Thanks Solo Performance California State University, Hayward Summer Performance Festival with Corey Fischer Counterpulse, San Francisco Emotion Meets Spirit: Integrating Mindfulness, Psychotherapy, and Neurobiology Solo Performance, Mt Madonna Center, Watsonville Solo Performances and Dharma Talks Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre Now What? with Barbara Marx Hubbard Esalen Institute, Big Sur 2004 Christmas Eve Solo Performance, Esalen Institute, Big Sur Presently Surprized with Corey Fischer Larkspur Café Theater, Larkspur Off Market Café Theater, San Francisco Listed in “Best Theater 2004” by S.F. Bay Guardian Nina Wise Improvising University of California, Santa Cruz Nina Wise Improvising Shotwell Studios, San Francisco Keynote Address Benefit Dinner, Hospice of Marin Women’s Works Festival Solo Performances Venue 9, San Francisco Evening of Stories with Wes Nisker, Jeff Greenwald, Tanya Schaeffer Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre Lecture: Art and Judaism Conney Colloquium on Jewish Arts University of Wisconsin, Madison Storytelling Event with Jack Kornfield and Wes Scoop Nisker Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre Lecture, Self-Expression and Spiritual Practice Institute of Noetic Sciences Lecture Series, San Francisco Enchanted Solo Performance International Transpersonal Association Conference, Palm Springs Healing Journeys: Cancer as a Turning Point Solo performance, Seattle 2003 Accept the Present with Annie Kunjappy Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York Now What? with Annie Kunjappy and Corey Fischer Highways, Los Angeles Dharma Talks and guided meditation Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre State of the Union Solo performance Bowery Poetry Center, New York A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life Keynote Address, American Camping Association Riverside Healing Journeys: Cancer as a Turning Point Conference Solo performance Marin Civic Center, San Rafael Women’s Lives Conference with Jean Bolen and Helen Palmer Solo performance UC Extension, San Francisco Wild and Wise: Women in Buddhist Practice with Tsultrim Allione and others Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre 2002 New Year’s Eve with Wes Scoop Nisker Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre Nina Wise Improvising Actor’s Theater, Santa Cruz The Last Night in May The Open Center, New York Improvised Performance Donor Weekend Esalen Institute, Big Sur Dharma Talks Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre Turtle Island Yoga Center, San Rafael Seventh Heaven Yoga Center 1999-2001 Women’s Lives Conference with Jean Bolen, Angie Arrien, Helen Palmer UC Extension, San Francisco April Fools Day Performance with Wes Scoop Nisker Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre Wild and Wise: Celebrating Women in Buddhism with Sylvia Boorstein, Tsultrim Allione, Mayumi Oda Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre Performance and Keynote Presentation National Natural Foods Association Conference Orlando, Florida UC Berkeley Conference on Retirement Solo Performance From Surviving to Thriving: Cancer as a Turning Point Conference Solo Performance Memorial Auditorium, Stanford Equinox Improvisations Solo Performance Dance Palace, Point Reyes Now What? with Corey Fischer Seventh Heaven, Berkeley A Traveling Jewish Theater, San Francisco Selected Teaching Motion Studio San Rafael, CA Ongoing Workshops in Physical Theater Esalen Institute Big Sur, CA Centro d'Ompio Pettanasco, Italy De Roos Amsterdam, The Netherlands International Transpersonal Association Santa Clara, CA West Killarney, Ireland 3rd, 4th and 5th International Festivals of Theater Art Sao Paolo and Bahia, Brazil Wongsanit Ashram Thailand San Francisco State University Open Center New York, NY Corporate and Board Training Webware, Inc Kaiser Permanente Hospice of Petaluma Zen Center of California Headlands Center for the Arts Zen Hospice Private Clients have included Isabel Allende Jane Hirshfield Mollie Katzen John Wellwood China Galland Jeff Greenwald Higher Education and Awards NEA Fellowships  Theater Program, Solo Theater Artist (2x) Visual Arts Program, New Genres Marin Arts Council Fellowships Playwrighting New Genres Headlands Center For the Arts Artist-in-Residence Fellowship Bay Area Critics' Circle Awards for Walking Home Original Script Original Score Sound Design Lighting Design Bay Area Critics' Circle Awards for Singing My Mother to Sleep New Directions in Theater Technical Achievement Bay Area Critics' Circle Award for Collision, New Directions in Theater Bachelor of Arts, UC Santa Cruz Independent Disciplinary Major in Religious Studies and the Aesthetics of Movement President's Undergraduate Fellowship Stevenson College Prize for Dance nina@ninawise.com home about nina | performances | workshops | writings videos | booking | motion inc. | the book!