BIOGRAPHY
Nilaja Sun
New York City native Nilaja Sun (No Child ...) has been a teaching artist with New York’s Epic Theatre Company’s “Journeys” program for eight years. The program’s purpose is to bring theater to city schools through intensive sessions of rehearsal and performance of a single play. An alumna of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, she has also performed in Epic’s Off-Broadway productions of Einstein’s Gift, Pieces of Throne, and Time and Conways. Her other self-written solo shows include Black and Blue, Insufficient Fare, Babylon, and September 11th. Sun received the Princess Grace Award for theater in 2003. No Child ... has been performed in Aspen and Chicago following its acclaimed runs in New York.