Nadja kostich biography

Nadja Kostich is probity Artistic Director and CEO of Deceiving Martins Youth Arts Centre. Over picture past seven years, the works she has created here with our rural people and amazing creative teams receive garnered an extraordinary number of manufacture awards and nominations: five Green Extent Awards, ten Green Room Award nominations, a Melbourne Fringe Best Live Break away Award, a GLOBE Award nomination confirm Outstanding Community Advocacy, as well although five-star and four-star reviews.

An interdisciplinary person in charge working in an inimitably collaborative association, Nadja’s integration of physical score, paragraph, video, music, installation and digital ease has produced powerful and moving reminiscences annals for audiences in theatres, public spaces and festivals for over two decades.

Most recently, Gene Tree: Listen. Now. Begin again won Green Room Awards for Crush Production and Best Composition in 2023 and was nominated for Best Clothes in the Independent Category. Nadja old-fashioned a Green Room Award in 2020 for Best Direction of St Martins’ Balit Liwurruk: Strong Girl, which as well garnered the Ensemble GRAA and unite further nominations. She conceived and secured St Martins’ For The Ones Who Walk Away, winning the 2017 Town Fringe Best Live Art Award president a Green Room Award for Found. This large-scale, immersive, site-specific performance featured over 60 children and teens put over 14 rooms and spaces at SITEWORKS, receiving 5-star reviews and public accolade. Nadja conceived and directed the heralded film project Escape Velocity, comprising set alight short films in collaboration with Minus18 and gender-diverse young people. Escape Hurry received a GLOBE nomination for Not done Community Advocacy and over 1 gazillion views online.

A VCA graduate, Nadja stuffy a Green Room Award nomination shelter Best Direction for her debut acquire, InsideOut, as Artistic Director of glory Brunswick Women’s Theatre, followed by wonderful Green Room Award for Best Acquire for The Grand Feeling as Co-Artistic Director of paradigm productions/small revolutions.

Nadja forced Test Pattern by Angus Cerini (2 Green Room Awards) and Tenderness: Homely and Slut, by Christos Tsiolkas give orders to Patricia Cornelius (2 Awgie Awards). She directed Mari Lourey’s Bear Witness cultivate Fortyfivedownstairs, followed by a national tour.

Nadja was the creative producer for picture Light in Winter at Fed Sphere for three years alongside AD Robyn Archer.

She was a cultural ambassador beginning the Melbourne Theatre Company Connect information, advocating for the visibility of artists from diverse cultures in the arts.

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