Nabra Nelson

Nabra Nelson is a writer, community organizer, and theater creator from Nubia, Egypt, and California. Her Nubian side is from the Fadijja tribe of the village of Abu Simbel in Egypt. As a playwright, arts administrator, director, and teaching artist, she works with theaters, universities, and community organizations to create positive change, strengthen community, and amplify under-heard voices through theater. She is the Director of Arts Engagement at Seattle Rep, a founding company member of Dunya Productions and Heard Space Arts Collective, co-host of the podcast Kunafa & Shay, and leads the Nubian Foundation for Preserving a Cultural Heritage.

Playwriting credits include: Nubian Stories (Dunya Productions, The Scratch’s In Pencil: Staged Readings, and Renaissance Theaterworks’ Br!NK New Play Festival), What to Expect When You’re Simulating (Macha Theaterworks’ Distillery, Golden Thread Productions’ New Threads Reading Series), A Muslim Christmas Carol (Dunya Productions, reading); Confessions (or the Secret Play for Secretly Liberal Muslims) (University of Washington, reading); Induced Labor (Golden Thread Productions’ ReOrient 2019 honorable mention), Creation Gossip and Lillith (Heard Space Arts Collective), and Minute to Minute and Le Serious Shit (MultiCultural Drama Company).