Nilaja Sun
- Actress
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 21 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 45 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.
