Ninaz Khodaiji
Overview
- Ethnicity
- South Asian / Indian
- Age Range
- 39 - 57
- Height
- 5' 2" (1m 57cm)
- Weight
- 8st. 7lb. (54kg)
- Hair Colour
- Brown
- Eye Colour
- Brown
- Build
- Slim
Images
Video
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video fileMonologue Competition
Other
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My Contact Number:
02083653098
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Credits
Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
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2023 |
Lead - actor
Theatre |
Passing Ailin Conant |
Tara Theatre |
2021 |
Lead
Theatre |
Mujib The Rebel Mukul Ahmed |
Queen Mary University |
2021 |
actor
Television |
Bloods SKY |
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2018 |
Jayanti
Theatre |
The March Richard Syms / Pins and Feathers |
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2018 |
Doctor's Wife (Lead)
Theatre |
The White Plague Alexander Raptotasios / Ferodo Bridges |
Landor Space |
2017 |
Greengrocer
Film |
Justice League Warner Brothers |
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2017 |
Specialist Host
Theatre |
Discovery Tui |
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2017 |
Zeenat
Film |
Pardaa Kajri Babbar / Bournemouth University Film School |
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2015 |
Gossiping Woman
Commercials & Industrials |
Movies 24 Movies 24 |
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2015 |
Walkers Wife
Commercials & Industrials |
ancestry.co.uk ancestry.co.uk |
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2015 |
Indu
Film |
Shandaar Phantom Films |
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2014 |
Mum
Commercials & Industrials |
Tropical Sun Tropical Sun |
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2013 |
Avaan (lead)
Theatre |
Tree of Seeds SAWCC |
Richmix |
2013 |
Lead
Theatre |
Damage Ninaz Khodaiji / own production |
Richmix |
Education
Year | Qualification | Where |
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2005 | MA Theatre Directing | Middlesex University |
2004 | Certificate in film making | London Film Academy |
1994 | Advanced Screenwriting | School of Visual Arts, NY |
1994 | Post Graduate Acting | HerBert Berghof Studio & Lee Strasberg Institute, NY |
About me
Training:Herbert Berghof Studio & Lee Strasberg Institute,, Professional Acting, 1994 - 1995
Jerwood Opera Writing Programme, Aldeburgh Music, March-Oct. 2007 (writer-director); 2 Playwrights' & Directors' Residencies, Royal Court Theatre (2001); Guest at The Actors' Studio, NY; observer at the Neighborhood Playhouse & NYU (Tisch); Speech & Drama Exams of the Trinity College of Music; intensive workshops with international theatre companies including the RSC; Working with Young People (facilitation course with Kazzum, London); projectionist at New York University in exchange for cinema classes;
Studied acting with Satya Dev Dubey in Mumbai for 4 years.
STAGE CREDITS:
2013, Stage, Woman 1 (Lead), DAMAGE, Ninaz Khodaiji
2002, Stage, Nina (Lead), CLOSE QUARTERS, Ninaz Khodaiji
2000, Stage, Woman/Id (Lead), THE WASTELAND AND THE LOVESONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK, Ninaz Khodaiji
1999, Stage, Katherine (Lead), THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
1997, Stage, Various Llead), JUMP1, JUMP 2 AND FLIGHT
1995, Stage, Anelle, STEEL MAGNOLIAS
1994, Stage, Woman (lead), CHARIVARI, Ninaz Khodaiji
1993, Stage, JUGALBANDI
1992, Stage, EXTERMINATION, SatyaDev Dubey
1992, Stage, Anjali (narrator + character), SAMBHOG THI SANYAS SUDHI, SatyaDev Dubey
1992, Stage, Mother (lead), THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS, Theatre Unit, Ninaz Khodaiji
1992, Stage, UPAR GAGAN, NEECHE DHARTI
1990, Stage, Anjali (narrator + character), SAMBHOG SE SANYAS TAK, SatyaDev Dubey
1989, Stage, Leader of Chorus, TROJAN WOMEN
1988, Stage, Bianca/Helena, AS YOU LOVE IT (SCENES FROM SHAKESPEARE)
1988, Stage, Lead, SKIRMISHES, Ninaz Khodaiji
1988, Stage, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
1987, Stage, Nancy, GASLIGHT
1986, Stage, NUTS
FURTHER CREDITS:
2011, Rehearsed Reading, Sunita (Lead), DHARMA DONUTS, Halycon, Chicago, Eric Petersen
2011, Workshop, Woman (Lead), LOVE LETTERS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST, Kiomars Moradi and Ninaz Khodaiji
2001, Rehearsed Reading, Emmi Straube, TAKING SIDES
1996, Television, ANYTHING GOES
1996, Television, Anchor, CULTURE SHOW (FORGOTTEN NAME)
1994, Film school, STUDENT FILMS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
1993, Film, Woman (lead), DEATH OF A PRODIGAL SON
1993, Film school, SHORT LETTER, LONG FAREWELL
1993, Television, RANGBERANGI
1992, Television, NATIONAL PARLIAMENTARY QUIZ
1991, Training Film, YES SIR
1985, Still Photography, THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE
Additional skills:
Performance: Writer/Director
Sports: Swimming, Weight Training, Yoga
Other Skills: Director, Theatre Programmer, Film making, Alexander Technique, Computer Literate, Drama Workshop Leader, Painting, Photography, Professional Producer, Professional Scriptwriter, Typing (touch), Writer
Additional information:
DIRECTING (professional credits - theatre):
Damage (April 2013) Richmix. Supported by Arts Council England, Peggy Ramsay Foundation, Visiting Arts, Richmix
Strangers (March 1-18, 2006) Upstairs at Oval House Theatre London. Developed in post as Writer In Residence at Oval House Theatre. Transfer to Hackney Empire Studio in spring '08. (Supported by ACE, The Peggy Ramsay Foundation and the Royal Victoria Hall Foundation) http://vimeo.com/16867845
So the Night Will Be Still (Aldeburgh Music 2007) - R&D, Jerwood Opera Writing Programme
Insomnia, Oval House Theatre, London. (Nov. 3-20, 2004) Developed through the Royal Court Theatre. Supported by Arts Council England.
Close Quarters (Feb. - July 2002, Mumbai)
The Wasteland & The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot (1999-2000, Mumbai)
Charivari (1994-1996) - devised piece about the Bombay riots (NCPA Mumbai; Natarani, Ahmedabad)
Educating Rita (Associate Director with Satyadev Dubey 1992, Mumbai, New Delhi)
The Effect of Gamma Rays On Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel (1992, Mumbai)
Skirmishes by Catherine Hayes (1988-90, Mumbai) Amateur production which won 10 awards; also for radio.
WRITING:
Damage (April 2013) Richmix. Supported by Arts Council England, Peggy Ramsay Foundation, Visiting Arts, Richmix
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled - stage play (2012)
N10 TV pilot - comedy-drama (2011)
So the Night Will Be Still (Aldeburgh Music 2007/Jerwood Opera Writing Programme) R&D as writer-director for a new opera on quantum physics with composer Marius Baranauskas.
Strangers - as Writer in Residence at Oval House Theatre, London, July 2005 - March 2006. R&D supported by Arts Council England, Peggy Ramsay Foundation, Oval House Theatre. Script advisor Tim Supple. Staged reading, Hugen Hall, Chicago, Sept '11.
Seven Sins (Pride) - I of 7 writers commissioned by Annette Mees to write a 7 part theatre piece, London 2006. Supported by Arts Council England.
Insomnia - 4 monologues, developed through the Royal Court Theatre, London (2001). Published 3 times - Samuel French (StageRite Seven First), CIEFL and Sahitya Akademi (India). On the 2004 curriculum of Syracuse University (U.S.A.); still on curriculum at CIEFL, India. Staged reading, Hugen Hall, Chicago, Sept '11.
Close Quarters - play, devised and co-written with Bharti Jaffrey (2001).
Charivari - devised theatre piece (1994).
Poetry - early work has been published & has won national awards; reading at British Council in 1989
Travel features for a Sunday newspaper
Advertising copy (especially TV commercials -Unilever, P&G, Garnier...); website content
Film & TV - Scripting, Directing, Development, Editing & Research:
Script-writing & development through consultancy at DSJ & freelance; directed edits for TV films & commercials; scripted and supervised all aspects of filming, pre and post production on TV commercials; scripted, researched & featured in Anything Goes- fashion program for BiTV (Wadia Movietone 1996);anchored and scripted capsules of a cultural show for DD3; edited 'Bebas' - film on alcoholism; working on a feature film screenplay. Scripted and developed TV pilot for 'N10' (2011).
Skills
Languages Spoken | English, French, Hindi, Spanish |
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Accents/Dialects | India (Hindi), Indian, Pakistani |
Dance Styles | Contemporary, Jazz |
Musical Skills | Piano/Keyboards |
Organisations / Memberships | BECTU (UK) |