As performer, Nora has acted off-Broadway and regionally in stage productions directed by Erica Fae, Paul Bargetto, Raquel Cion, Karin Coonrod, and Kate Whoriskey, among many others. She toured extensively with the Drama Desk Award-winning, Charlie Victor Romeo and co-starred in the film version of the same play (Sundance Film Festival, Netflix release). Other film includes The Transfiguration (directed by Michael O'Shea, selected Cannes, Un Certain Regard), Chase Me (directed by Annie Silverstein). Most recent film includes Amman Abbasi and Amatus-sami Karim's Simple Somewhere Else. Voice over includes commercial and video game content for Atari, MTV, NBC, and US Army, including series narrator for Yahoo!Screen's "Mystery of Men" and "Deliberations" podcast (Audioboom). Back in the day, she was a member of the early 2000s Brooklyn performance art band Force Theory, reporter (recurring) for TV news magazine show First Cut (NBC), and film body double for Anne Hathaway.
As writer, Nora’s episodic TV drama, co-written and created with her brother, George, was optioned and developed by HBO and produced by Know Wonder (Executive Producers Mahershala Ali, Amatus-sami Karim, Mimi Valdés). Her multi-character solo play, Hip, was nominated for two New York Innovative Theater Awards and received glowing critical praise. She is co-recipient of the NYIT Award for Best Short Play along with Kim Katzberg and Raquel Cion, also included in "The Best American Short Plays" anthology. Other original theater work has been presented by HERE, Ars Nova, BAX, The Brick, Catch Series, and PS 122.
As educator, Nora is full-time faculty at Pace University’s Sands College of Performing Arts and associate faculty at The New School of Drama and NYU's Experimental Theater Wing. She studied psychophysical acting with Stephen Wangh and Raina von Waldenburg and was a teaching apprentice to Erica Fae at Yale.
Recent Work:
- "Simple Somewhere Else" (co-star, directed by Amatus-sami Karim; produced by Amman Abasi) premiering Los Angeles Short Film Festival, Summer 2025
- the already Theater Company (member actor), project in process
- The Assembly, a gathering of Grotowski-based practioners and teachers (workshop instructor), The Mercury Store, Spring 2025
Training: BFA Drama, NYU Tisch, Experimental Theater Wing
MFA Playwriting, UC Riverside
SAG-AFTRA