Nina Solomita, playwright, actor
In my plays I like to put women center stage as they struggle with complex questions about how to live their lives. Humor and irony are major components of my work because they make the unbearable bearable.
Plays include People Like Us, commissioned as part of a collaborative piece for a Zoom production in 2021 of the Eclectic Collective concerning homelessness. Others that have been produced or had staged readings include, He Fell In, But I Did Not, which I also acted in and directed for the Monterey, CA, Short Plays Festival; After the Sermon (now entitled Maggie’s Labyrinth), chosen to be read as part of Paperwing Theater’s Summer Play Festival in Monterey and at the Los Angeles Theater Company; Fania produced at the Carl Cherry Center in Carmel, CA and for The Listening Place in Monterey; Nature in the City and The Uninvited Guest, also at the Cherry Center in Carmel. Two of my monologues are published in the International Center for Women Playwrights’ book, Mother/Daughter Monologues, volumes 1 (click here) and 4 (click here).
My acting roles are limited since I arrived in California 23 years ago because I put more attention in working with clients and my own writing these days. However, it’s been fun to act when I can. At the Carl Cherry Center, I played Nadine in my play, He Fell In, But I Did Not; Seal in My Mother’s Keeper by Jane Press; Tess in my play, Second Nature; Molly Bloom from Ulysses by James Joyce. For The Listening Place in Monterey, I played Claire in Proof by David Auburn. At Western Stage in Salinas, CA, I played Homebody in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul.
Plays include People Like Us, commissioned as part of a collaborative piece for a Zoom production in 2021 of the Eclectic Collective concerning homelessness. Others that have been produced or had staged readings include, He Fell In, But I Did Not, which I also acted in and directed for the Monterey, CA, Short Plays Festival; After the Sermon (now entitled Maggie’s Labyrinth), chosen to be read as part of Paperwing Theater’s Summer Play Festival in Monterey and at the Los Angeles Theater Company; Fania produced at the Carl Cherry Center in Carmel, CA and for The Listening Place in Monterey; Nature in the City and The Uninvited Guest, also at the Cherry Center in Carmel. Two of my monologues are published in the International Center for Women Playwrights’ book, Mother/Daughter Monologues, volumes 1 (click here) and 4 (click here).
My acting roles are limited since I arrived in California 23 years ago because I put more attention in working with clients and my own writing these days. However, it’s been fun to act when I can. At the Carl Cherry Center, I played Nadine in my play, He Fell In, But I Did Not; Seal in My Mother’s Keeper by Jane Press; Tess in my play, Second Nature; Molly Bloom from Ulysses by James Joyce. For The Listening Place in Monterey, I played Claire in Proof by David Auburn. At Western Stage in Salinas, CA, I played Homebody in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul.