Nina Rapi
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
Tel: 020 8331 8940
Email: k.n.rapi@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 235
Office Hours
Friday 2 - 4pm
Nina Rapi is a playwright and short story writer.
Her plays and monologues include:
- Kiss the Shadow, Soho Theatre Studio (workshop production)
- Reasons to Hide, Tristan Bates Theatre (workshop production)
- Lovers, Gielgud Theatre West End Shorts Season (top finalist, FuturePerfect scriptwriting competition)
- Mrs Jones Matters, EstaceZero Teatro, Porto, Portugal
- Award-winning Angelstate, performed at Betsey’s Salon (short version)
- Edgewise, National Theatre of Greece and Gate Theatre (staged readings)
- Tricky, Tart Gallery (& published by Heinemann)
- Gentle Persuasion, SubVerse, Theatre503
- No Trouble, developed with a Soho Theatre bursary & dramaturgy
- Josie's Restrooms, ICA (& published by Robinson)
- Dreamhouse and Dance of Guns, both at Oval House theatre
- Ithaka, Riverside studios (Winner, Best Play Award, BITS Festival, Pirani, India & published in Seven Plays by Women, Aurora Metro, winner of the Raymond Williams award)
- Critical Moments, a trilogy of shorts, Soho Poly theatre
Her short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies such as TellTalesIII; Pulp.net; 3:AM Magazine; Chroma and others. Nine Traces in a Circle, her first collection of short stories was published recently in Greece. She is currently writing a new short story collection, Out Where? awarded an Arts Council writing grant.
She has co-edited Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender and Performance, Haworth Press, N.Y. and written numerous essays on performance, representation and sexuality published in journals and anthologies by Cambridge University Press, Cassell, Harwood Academic Press and others. Essays on her writing by other writers have been published in the UK, USA and Italy. N.R. has been teaching creative writing for more than a decade and in different contexts, from London University to Holloway Prison and now University of Greenwich. She is the editor of BRAND literary magazine.
For more details visit: www.nina-rapi.com