Nilaja Sun
Nilaja Sun is an actor, playwright and teaching artist, most known for her Obie award-winning solo piece NO CHILD… which had its initial off-Broadway run at the Barrow Street Theatre from July 2006-Ju... Read more
Nilaja Sun is an actor, playwright and teaching artist, most known for her Obie award-winning solo piece NO CHILD… which had its initial off-Broadway run at the Barrow Street Theatre from July 2006-June 2007 and was recently revived there in an extended run. For her creation and performance of NO CHILD... and its subsequent national tour, Nilaja garnered twenty-one awards including: an Obie Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards including the John Gassner Playwriting Award for Outstanding New American Play, a Theatre World Award, the Helen Hayes Award, two NAACP Theatre Awards, and was named the Best One-Person Show at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. NO CHILD... is published and has been licensed out to over forty-five theatres nationally since 2008. In 2010, Nilaja was awarded the soloNOVA Award for Artist of the Year by terraNOVA Collective. She has also been seen on "30 Rock," "Law & Order: SVU," "Unforgettable," "Louie," "The International," "Rubicon," and in 2012, she will be seen in the independent films "Nature Calls" and "Hairbrained." A native of the Lower East Side, she is a Princess Grace Award winner and has worked proudly as a teaching artist in New York City since 1998.