Nehprii Amenii
Latest News on Nehprii Amenii:
Premiere Stages At Kean University Announces 2024 Bauer Boucher Playwriting Award Winners (Jan 22, 2024)
New 42 Reveals 2023-24 Cohort of New Victory LabWorks Artists (Jul 10, 2023)
Feature: The VIPs Behind the Curtain! A VIP Reception at the Drama League Awards (May 23, 2023)
Premiere Stages At Kean University Announces 2024 Bauer Boucher Playwriting Award Winners (Jan 22, 2024)
New 42 Reveals 2023-24 Cohort of New Victory LabWorks Artists (Jul 10, 2023)
Feature: The VIPs Behind the Curtain! A VIP Reception at the Drama League Awards (May 23, 2023)
Nehprii Amenii BIO
Nehprii Amenii is a Brooklyn based writer, director, production designer, and educator. As a theatre artist, she has a passion for personal narratives, puppetry, and grand-scale spectacle. She is known for creating experiences that dismantle the wall between players and audiences, enchant the imagination and inspire new ways of seeing and thinking. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Khunum Productions, a creative consulting and production company.
She has worked with Penumbra Theatre Company, The Flea, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Bushwick Starr, Iati Theatre, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Company, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Lumber Yard Performing Arts, Connecticut Repertory, Theatre The Holland Festival, The Minnesota Orchestra, Bread and Puppet Theatre, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, The Public Theatre, the New York Phil Harmonic at Lincoln Center, and Cirque Du Soleil. She has enjoyed over a decade of teaching and staging puppet performances for The Alvin Ailey American Dance Foundation’s AileyCamp, where her work has been featured on the stages of Miller theatre and New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
In 2010, she received a grant from Downtown Brooklyn Partnership to create an interactive exhibit and Community Arts Center based on her children's book "Memories of the Little Elephant." In 2011 she was sponsored by the International Rotary Club to create a story-telling exhibit in South East India. In 2013, she was honored with the Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Prize for playwriting, for her original work, Food for the Gods. In 2015, Nehprii was invited as a U.S delegate to the Women Playwrights International Conference in Cape Town South Africa. And in 2018, she was recipient of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement Grant, and also awarded from the Puffin Foundation. She is a sponsored artist of the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2020, she was commissioned by The Movement Theatre Company, was recipient of the Puppet Showplace Black Puppeteer empowerment grant, artist in residence with Dixon Place Theatre, twice recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts. Most recently, Nehprii was selected as the Labworks artist fellowship with the New Victory Theatre.
As an educator and curriculum developer for over 20 years, she uses puppetry, multi-media arts and story telling to mentor teachers in curriculum differentiation and to teach English to young immigrants within New York public schools. She has also taught at Minneapolis Community and Technical college, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and the University of Connecticut. In 2014, she launched Kids Creative Power, Khunum Productions’ Arts in Education division.
Nehprii Amenii has served on the advisory committee of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, is a member of The Playwrights Center, The Stage Directors and Choreographers Union and Foundation, and is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. She has studied Cultural Anthropology with the International Khepran Institute, holds a B.A. in Creative Communications from the University of Minnesota, and an M.F.A in Theatre Production from Sarah Lawrence College.
Nehprii Amenii Photos
Bonnie Comley, Andrew Coopman, Nilan, Bevin Ross, Gabriel Stelian-Shanks join with Jean Carlo Yunen Arostegul, Diego, Vanessa Ogbuehi, Nadia Guevara, Ann Kreitman, Ibi Owolabi, Lyam B. Gabel, Alex Keegan, Nehprii Amenii, Sanhawich Meateanuwat, Jessica Natalie Smith and Hector Alvarez
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05/17/2023
From: Photos: The Drama League Professionals Week Producers Dinner
Nehprii Amenii News
Premiere Stages At Kean University Announces 2024 Bauer Boucher Playwriting Award Winners
Premiere Stages at Kean University announces the winners of the 2024 Bauer Boucher Playwriting Awards, recognizing Kean University student Riv Dabul and alumnus Dustin Ballard. Both winners will receive a cash prize and a developmental reading of their plays.
New 42 Reveals 2023-24 Cohort of New Victory LabWorks Artists
New 42 has revealed the 2023-24 cohort of New Victory LabWorks and LabWorks Launch artists.
Feature: The VIPs Behind the Curtain! A VIP Reception at the Drama League Awards
On Friday, May 19, 2023, one hour before the Drama League Awards, Board President Bonnie Comley, Kirk Iwanowski, Mary Jain, and the Board Hosted a VIP Reception at the Drama League Awards right next to the Ziegfeld Ballroom.
Photos: Stars From SHUCKED, SWEENEY TODD, PARADE And More Hit The Red Carpet At The 2023 Drama League Awards
The 2023 Drama League Awards welcomes stars of the Broadway season and beyond, including Josh Groban, Annaleigh Ashford, Ben Platt, Phillipa Soo, NaTasha Yvette Williams and more! See photos from the event!
Inside The 2023 Drama League Fellows Dinner at Sardi's
On Wednesday, May 18, 2022, the day before the Drama League Awards, Drama League President Bonnie Comley and husband/Tony Winner Stewart F. Lane welcomed the 2023 Directing Fellows at Sardis in New York City's Time Square (the center of Broadway)!
Photos: The Drama League Professionals Week Producers Dinner
The Drama League’s Gabriel Stellian Shanks (Artistic Director), Bevin Ross (Executive Director), and Bonnie Comley (Board President) welcomed the 2023 Directing Fellows at Sardi’s in Times Square.
Photos: Go Inside the 2023 Drama League Award Nominations
Check out photos from the 2023 Drama League Award nominations!
The Drama League Names 2023 Directors Project Recipients
The Drama League has announced the fourteen exceptional stage directors receiving the fellowships, assistantships, and residencies of the 2023 Drama League Directors Project.
Kean Stages Presents George Orwell's ANIMAL FARM
Kean Theatre Conservatory presents Animal Farm from March 24 to April 1st in the Bauer Boucher Theatre Center.
Applications Now Open For the 2023 National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has announced that applications are now open for the 2023 National Puppetry Conference. Submissions will be accepted until Tuesday, January 31, 2023, at 11:59pm PST.
Maafa Commemoration Project Premieres in the Lehigh Valley
The Maafa Commemoration Project Lehigh Valley performs at Resurrected Life Community Church October 1-2, 2022. The performance is co-produced between Sharon A. Brown, Rev. Dr. Gregory Edwards, and Touchstone Theatre’s Festival UnBound.
LITTLE AMAL WALKS NYC Announces Full 55-Event Schedule
St. Ann’s Warehouse and The Walk Productions with Handspring Puppet Company have announced the full schedule for Little Amal Walks NYC, a staggering 55 unique events welcoming Amal to America.
Touchstone Announces 4th Year Of FESTIVAL UNBOUND
Touchstone Theatre opens its 2022-23 season with a fourth year of Festival UnBound, a five-day celebration with visual arts, live music, participatory dance, original theatre, and community dialogue shaped by Lehigh Valley community members for a unique, hyper-local festival-going experience.
New 42 Announces 2022-23 Cohort of New Victory LabWorks Artists
Today, New 42 announced the tenth group of New Victory LabWorks and LabWorks Launch artists for the 2022-23 season. LabWorks explores, devises and reimagines what theater for families can be by supporting New York-based artists of all disciplines.
Photos: Book Release Party Celebrates New Philosophy Of Design For The Stage
Recently author and theatrical designer Joshua Langman celebrated the publication of his book 'Standby: An Approach to Theatrical Design' with a release party at The Players, a historic private theatre club in Gramercy Park.
Interactive Multi-Media Play HUMAN Plays at Wortham Center for Performing Arts
In the latest full production from writer-director and generative artist Nehprii Amenii, humanity has died off because it failed to hearken to its own hearts and did everything correct to make itself extinct. An octopus named Akashi could donate one of his three hearts to bring about what would hopefully be a more evolved and sensitive human. But Akashi isn't sure he wants to do that - he finds life to be better without humans.
Questions are Raised as the University of Connecticut Shuts Down the Sold Out Performance of Play About Police Brutality on Opening Night
The Connecticut Repertory Theatre's sold-out run of Food For the Gods, has been canceled.
ON THE EDGE: PUPPETS IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE Announced At Museum Of The City Of New York, December 9
'On the Edge: Puppets in Contemporary Culture” A conversation with Avenue Q's Rick Lyon and Nehprii Amenii has been announced at Museum of the City of New York on December 9th.
The Connecticut Repertory Theatre Launches New Season This Month
Connecticut Repertory Theatre has announced its return to staged theater with the launch of its Fall 2021 season. Every step of planning kept our students' education and safety paramount.
PUPPETS OF NEW YORK: DOWNTOWN AT THE CLEMENTE Spotlights Legendary Downtown Puppetry Artists
Puppets of New York: Downtown at the Clemente is now on view at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, highlighting the work of 12 downtown NYC artists who explore the theatrical possibilities of puppet theater.
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