Biography

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.
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She was awarded the 2008 Joseph Jefferson Award for Solo Performance for "No Child" at the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.

She was awarded the 2008 Back Stage Garland Award for Performance in a Play for "No Child..." at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

She was awarded the 2008 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Ray Stricklyn Memorial Award for Solo Performance for "No Child..." at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

She was awarded the 2008 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Solo Performance for "No Child..." at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, California.