Nakissa Etemad

Nakissa Etemad

Dramaturg, The River Bride

Other theatres: Regional: Heart Shaped Nebula (Shotgun Players); Isfahan Blues (Golden Thread Productions/African-American Shakespeare Company); the road weeps, the well runs dry (Perseverance Theatre, Pillsbury House Theatre, Latino Theater Company, University of South Florida, Lark Play Development Center); Be Bop Baby: A Musical Memoir (Z Space); every tongue confess (Arena Stage); ... and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi (The Cutting Ball Theater); The House that will not Stand (readings at Alliance Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre); The Mountaintop (Bay Area Playwrights Festival); Resurrection Blues, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, I Am My Own Wife, The Magic Fire (The Wilma Theater); Culture Clash in Bordertown, Mummified Deer (San Diego Repertory Theatre) and others. 

Other credits: Executive VP Freelance, Regional VP Metro Bay Area for Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas; former Dramaturg and Literary Manager for The Wilma Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre and San Diego Repertory Theatre. 

Directing: Staged readings/workshops: Wolf at the Door, Alcira, Heart Shaped Nebula, Woman on Fire. 

Awards: Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy for the road weeps

Education: MFA, BA, University of California, San Diego.