Playwright
“Beautiful and disturbing poetic drama”
I graduated from MA in Playwriting & Dramaturgy / The University of Galway in 2020, and have since worked as a freelance playwright.
Sheep! – A play about a sexual assault, flocks and how to belong when you can’t look anyone in their eyes anymore in fear of unwanted attention?
The Enchanted – A promenade piece about climate change on a mythical island, onto which the audience steps to listen to what fairies and fantasies have to say about our dystopian dilemma.
It´s True I Love You All So Much – A play written for computer as the performer/performance/stage. An autobiographical piece about self-harm, that argues healing is boring and repetitive and still worth it. Includes a black hole that writes dating bios as side business.
Älä jätä jälkiä / Leave No Trace – A play about trauma, abusive relationships and how the memories get scrambled afterwards. In Finnish.
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SHEEP!
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THE ENCHANTED
A promenade play with aural elements. Premiere in Birr Castle Grounds 2023.
Listen to a short sample from the audio of the play. Please wear headphones!
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“This play demonstrates a very high level of skill navigating cutting-edge forms of performance-making in service to and in harmony with its complex themes, all centered around the expression of self, need, and pain intrinsic to histories of self-harm. This challenging theme is met with kind and unblinking forthrightness that is most discernable in instances of audience interaction. Impressively high levels of creativity and delicacy are especially shown in designing audience interactions – – – “
Feedback from the play dramaturg, Dr. Sarah Hoover.
IT´S TRUE IN IFTR WORLD CONGRESS:
Accepted Paper: Hoover, Sarah. “Inside is the new outside now”: sharing spaces in the multi-modal play It’s True I Love You All So Much. International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) World Congress 2022: Shifting Centres (In the Middle of Nowhere), 22 June 2022.
PREMIERE 30TH OF SEPTEMBER 2021
Directed by Rena Bryson
Produced by Eva’s Echo Theater Company
Playwright Jenni Nikinmaa
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Älä jätä jälkiä / Leave No Trace
Älä jätä jälkiä on etäesitys, jota seurataan tietokoneen, kuulokkeiden ja postitse
lähetettävän materiaalin kautta. Esitys on
muokattu immersiivisestä teoksesta etäesitykseksi pandemian takia.
“Ettei jättäisi jälkiä, pitää kadottaa kaikki, millä
jälkiä jätetään.”
Jenni Nikinmaan kirjoittaman tekstin
ensimmäinen versio esitettiin KOM-teatterin Sokkodraamassa 4.12.2017 Lauri Maijalan ohjaamana.
Leave No Trace was written as an immersive performance, but due to the pandemic, we created a digital version that happened through letters, video calls and click-through videos.
“To not leave a trace, I have to lose everything that leaves marks.”
The first version of this play was performed as part of KOM-Theatre´s blind drama series (rehearsed readings), directed by Lauri Maijala.
ENSI-ILTA / PREMIERE 17.2.2021
Ohjaus/Director: Kati Keskihannu
Käsikirjoitus, dramaturgia, konsepti / Playwright, dramaturg, digital concept: Jenni Nikinmaa
Tyttö / The Girl: Eeva Putro
Miehen ääni / Man´s voice: Jussi Järvinen
Mies videolla / Man in the video: Cathal Flannery
Nuket ja nuketus / Puppets and puppetry: Maija Westerholm
Sävellys/Composer: Anitra Bohman-Penttinen
Videokuvaus & esityskuvat/Videos & Pictures from the show: Olli-Matti Rantanen
Kuvat & Graafinen suunnittelu / Pictures & Graphic Design: Nils Krogell
Jenni Nikinmaa 