Annika Nori
Theater Artist . Writer . Website Designer
Annika Nori is a theater artist, scholar, writer and website designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She tells stories in many forms, and always has.
Annika Nori is an internationally produced playwright, director and performer. She has worked in professional theaters, great halls and black boxes, and has worked collaboratively and individually to devise and develop plays. She is a character actor who loves the psychological discovery of roles, the collaboration of theater and the simple joy of performing for a live audience. Her experience as an actor comes in handy as a director, where she guides the actor through exercises and coaching to discover the character beneath the words. She is also interested in professional experience in writing, directing and acting for film and television.
She has a B.F.A. in Theater and Original Works: Play-Writing and Directing from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle Washington.
She received her M.A. in Shakespeare & Creativity from the University of Birmingham and the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-Upon-Avon, and has worked at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Current Projects
Plays, Novels &
Writing Projects
The Winters Tale: A modern-day retelling of Shakespeare's classic and ambiguous so-called romance. In 1993, a small law firm in San Francisco welcomes a second baby into one of their title families. The stress brings out the worst in some, leading to heartbreak, desolation and death. 25 years later, in Winters, CA, a young law-student fights for the love of her life while battling the justice system. 7m, 7f, 1 trans woman, 1 boy.
I Am Helena: An 11 year old American girl is sent to live with her father, a man she has never met, in England, having lost her mother before receiving the answer to the question she most wants answered: Why did you name me Helena? As she grows up, she finds her life entangled with the lives Shakespeare created centuries ago, and she struggles to remove the curse.
The Tower: More than a century from now, a young woman named Sally spends her days maintaining the technology and Artificial Intelligence that upholds The Tower's Resident's luxurious lifestyle. By doing so, Sally plays an integral role in maintaining the expansive and insidious lie on which their lives are built.