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          Nilaja Sun is a teaching artist, writer and performer from New York City's Lower East Side.

        1. Nilaja Sun is a teaching artist, writer and performer from New York City's Lower East Side.
        2. Our sustained relationship deepened in following workshops led by the Obie award-winning playwright and solo performer Nilaja Sun.
        3. A database of Nilaja Sun's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates.
        4. Nilaja Sun returns to Bard to develop Pike Street, a new play about a Lower East Side family during the “storm of the century.” Her work-in-progress residency.
        5. Please note that some courses are yearlong and some are fall or spring semester only.

          6. A database of Nilaja Sun's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates....

          Nilaja Sun

          American actor and playwright

          Nilaja Sun (born Nilaja Sun Gordon) is an actress, playwright, and a teaching artist from the Lower East Side in New York City.[1] Sun has taught theatre in New York City public schools since 1998 and is best known for her award-winning one-person play, No Child...[1] She is half Puerto Rican and half African-American.[2]

          Career

          Sun has featured in TV shows and movies, including The Bourne Legacy (2012), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2004–2006), and 30 Rock (2008–2012).[3]

          Her most famous work, No Child..., follows the story of Miss Sun, a visiting teacher in a 10th grade classroom at Malcolm X High School in the Bronx.[4] The one-person play includes 16 characters, a mixture of students, teachers, and administration.

          The play was created by Sun based on her eight-year experience with arts education in New York City schools,[5] including at Martin Luther Kin