Interview: Nina Raine

Awards to accept, new scripts to write and direct, and now another international production of her hit Tribes… playwright Nina Raine’s star is in the ascendant.

By John Nathan In Theatre

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9th June, 2012

Interview

Nina Raine has just heard that her play Tribes, which is about to have its New Zealand premiere, has won a coveted New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award. “It’s amazing,” she says, the day the news is announced. “It’s been nominated for lots of awards, and I get excited about every one. But this time I am really excited.” She hasn’t a lot of leisure to absorb the news. The 36-year-old British writer/director is simultaneously writing one thing – a television script – and directing another, the West End version of a play called Jumpy. Raine also directed its premiere ...

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