Nadiya (she/hers) is a director, visual artist, and writer from a houseplant and immigrant household, currently based in New York. Circus and craft inspired, she works in the intersections of mediums and has developed work from physical theatre to ceramics at the O’Neill Theater Center, Guapamacataro Center for Art and Ecology, Williams College, the Bechdel Project, the Connelly, Artshack Brooklyn, and the Edinburgh Fringe.

Theatre

As a theatre artist and administrator, she served as the Humanities Manager at Theatre for a New Audience where she produced the 360 Viewfinder dramaturgical publication and has worked at the O’Neill, the Vineyard, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Signature Theatre Company. Her recent work employs tactility, bold patterns, and site-specificity to navigate her relationship with geography and community. Nadiya is a founding member of fishmarket theatre co. where she directs physical theatre works based in embodied dramaturgy and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Nadiya has studied at the National Theatre Institute in Advanced Directing, Sorbonne Nouvelle, and with Complicité. She graduated Williams College with a B.A. in Theatre with Honors as a Hutchinson Memorial Fellow, Ruth Scott Sanford Fellow, and Wilmers Student Thesis Fellow.

She's currently training in physical theatre at École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq.

Visual Arts

When she’s not working on the show, Nadiya works as an illustrator, ceramicist, and printmaker. Trained most early on as a Slavic decorative artist, she’s invested in artistic work that prioritizes storytelling, craft, and folk-based modes of creation. Her current mediums include: watercolor, print, clay, ink, acrylic, fresco, mural, and digital.

Her work has been exhibited at Cooperativa Regional de Ecología Aplicada (CREA), Teatro Morelos de Maravtío, and the Williams College Department of Art. She’s trained at East London Printmakers, La Villa Bastille, Academie de la Grande Chaumière, and Williams College and most recently was a ceramics working member at Artshack Brooklyn. Nadiya’s been a Sol Lewitt drafting & fabrication assistant at MASS MoCA and a ceramics production assistant at various studios.

She’s an upcoming 2025 MI-LAB Artist-in-Residence in Echizen, Japan.

Past commercial clients include Tessa Violet, Cesarina Restaurant, and Peacedale Global Arts.