RESIDENT ARTISTS

Project being workshopped at Chelsea Factory:
HUMAN

About Nehprii Amenii:
Nehprii Amenii is a Brooklyn-based stage director, playwright, and puppeteer. As a generative theatre artist, she has a passion for both personal narratives and grand-scale spectacle. She is known for creating experiences that dismantle the wall between players and audiences. Nehprii has worked with Bread and Puppet, St. Anne's Warehouse, Lumberyard Performing Arts, The Public, La Mama, The O'Neill, Connecticut Rep, Pan Asian Rep, Virginia Stage Company,  Charm City  Fringe, the Holland Festival, NJPAC, Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, The New York Philharmonic, and more. Her work has been shared internationally in India, Haiti and South Africa. She's been awarded The Lipkin Prize for Playwriting, and from The International Rotary Club, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Puffin Foundation, The Jim Henson Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently in fellowship with New Victory Theatre and is guest artist at the Clarice Center for Performing Arts, with her work Food for the Gods. She is a member of The Stage Directors and Choreographer's Society, the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and has taught at Sarah Lawrence, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, University of Connecticut, Fordham University, and is currently guest faculty at the The New School. She holds an M.F.A in Interdisciplinary Theatre from Sarah Lawrence.