ABOUT

MA in Playwriting & Dramaturgy from NUI Galway (1st class honours). Shortlisted for Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2020. Remote Control Residency 2021, Gap Day 2021. Theatre57 TEST-residency 2022. Remote Control Residency 2022. MAKE 2022 residency. FUEL development program 2023. Artist at Work Dublin Fringe 2023 at Interface Inagh. Pavilion Theatre Studio residency 2023. Associate artist at Big Telly Theatre Company 2024. Delve with ISACS at Spraoi Festival 2024. Resonance & Context Creation residencies at Motion Chapel 2025. Time & Space to Think residency at Motion Chapel 2026. Arts Council Project Award for writing 2026. IN SITU – participant 2026.

jenni.nikinmaa@gmail.com

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I was born in Finland the year Chernobyl exploded, and I am exactly the same age as Lady Gaga. I sing when I feel safe enough, but mostly I write poems about sailors and restless people, create beautiful & disturbing poetic drama, and perform with spoken words or without them.

I work as a playwright, dramaturg & poet, performer and theatre-maker – and sometimes I design sound. I have experience as producer and production manager, as stage manager and as an assistant director. I created my first play when I was seven years old with my friends and performed it at school assembly – A piece about a worm who sings, where I had the role of a horse with black socks who played the piano.

I moved over to Ireland in 2019 to study after visiting here multiple times a year for a very long time. The pandemic happened during the end of my MA at the University of Galway, and I figured that since the world is ending, I might as well move over to an island – Árainn, where I lived for over 5 years.

I still love the island more than any place in the world, but it’s time for another adventure, and I am currently based in Galway.