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ABOUT

A director working across new plays and classics, Nadia Guevara is guided by humor, sensuality, irreverence, and theatricality. Her work lives at the intersection of surprise, seduction, and subversion, and is rooted in rehearsal rooms where rigor, delight, and curiosity coexist. The body is treated as an instrument of meaning, with relationship at the center of the storytelling process.

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Based between New York City and Washington, D.C., she freelances nationally and previously consulted with Folger Shakespeare Library. She is the 2022 to 2024 recipient of The Drama League Stage Directing Fellowship.

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Her leadership background includes serving as Director of Arts Engagement and Education at GALA Hispanic Theatre, where she led initiatives focused on access, audience connection, and culturally responsive programming. During the pandemic, she created Leyendo con GALita, a digital storytelling project that reached more than 40,000 viewers and centered language, care, and community during a period of profound isolation.

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In San Diego, she served as Associate Artistic Director at New Village Arts. There, she spearheaded the company’s first sensory friendly mainstage production and launched Teatro Pueblo Nuevo, a program that included the organization’s first Latinx TYA production and its first Latinx mainstage production.

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Her artistic foundation began in acting, with training rooted in classical voice and ensemble based performance. She received a nomination for Outstanding Lead Performance and was later awarded Craig Noel Award for Actor of the Year for her work in Cloud Tectonics, The Wind and the Breeze, and Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. That foundation continues to shape how she works with actors, particularly through attention to breath, rhythm, musicality, and nonverbal communication. An actor’s sensibility shapes her rehearsal rooms, with an emphasis on trust, precision, and shared vocabulary across disciplines.

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At every scale, the goal remains the same: to create spaces where artists feel supported in taking risks and audiences feel fully present to the live moment unfolding in front of them. Theatre, at its most powerful, sharpens perception, deepens relationships, and leaves us a little more awake to the world around us.

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