Nora is a NYC- based actor and writer intent on crafting compelling characters within bold and nuanced worlds
One Trick Pony
Acting for Film/ TV
Charlie Victor Romeo (Netflix release, Sundance Film Festival); The Transfiguration (Cannes Film Festival); First Cut (NBC, series regular); body double for Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married.
Voice Over
Commercial and industrial content for MTV, Atari, Yahoo! Screen Mystery of Men (series regular as narrator), US Army, Pfizer, Communication Workers of America, Deliberations Podcast season 3 (series regular as lead prosecutor).
Writing for TV
Co-writer and co-creator of episodic series in development with HBO, Executive Produced by Know Wonder.
Teaching
Current full-time Acting faculty at Pace University and part-time at The New School of Drama; previously, adjunct faculty at NYU/Tisch (ETW); guest instructor at Naropa University MFA, Columbia Film MFA and Georgetown. Teaching apprenticeship with master physical acting teacher, Erica Fae at Yale School of Drama. Co-taught with Stephen Wangh and Wendell Beavers, Acrobat of the Heart Workshop in psychophysical Acting and Viewpoints training.
Acting for Stage
Favorite stage roles include, Charlie Victor Romeo (US and UK tours- Edinburgh headliner); A Couple of Poor Polish-Speaking. Romanians (Abrons- US Premiere); Automotive (PS 122); A Bicycle Country (Public Theater); 3/4 of a Mass for Saint Vivian (Theatre Alliance- World Premiere), for which she won the Washington DC Audience Award for Best Actress. Nora has worked with, among others, directors Zishan Ugurlu, Paul Bargetto, PD Michnewicz, Jill A Samuels, Karin Coonrod, and Kate Whoriskey.
Original work as writer-performer includes Hip (IRT Theater) nominated for two New York Innovative Theater Awards for Outstanding Solo Performance and Outstanding Short Script; Selling Splitsville (PS 122, Boston Women in Comedy Festival); Courtesy Works (HERE); Are We There Yet? (Singapore International Festival); Strays (The Brick) with Kim Katzberg and Raquel Cion, winner of NYIT Award for Outstanding Short Script and included in The Best American Short Plays of 2015-16 (Applause Books); additional original work produced by Catch Series, Ars Nova, The Brick, BAX, Cloud City. Nora was a frequent collaborator with Force Theory, an early 2000s performance art band with a mini cult following.
Training
NYU, Experimental Theater Wing, BFA Acting
RADA, Certificate in Shakespeare in Performance, London, UK
University of California at Riverside, MFA Playwriting