Nina Raine is an English

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and

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, the only daughter of Craig Raine and

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, and a grand niece of the Russian novelist

Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; rus, Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, p=bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pa ...

. She graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1998 with a First in

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Life and career

She won the Channel Four/ Jerwood Space Young Regional Theatre Director bursary in 2000 to train as a director at the

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where she assisted on a number of plays including '' My Zinc Bed'', ''Mouth to Mouth'', ''

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'' and ''Fucking Games''. She has directed plays in several other theatres since then, including '' Unprotected'' at the Liverpool Everyman and the

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in 2006, for which she won the

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Best Director Award, and ''Shades'' by

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as part of the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers' Festival in 2009, as well as ''Jumpy'' by April De Angelis at the

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and in the

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. ''Rabbit'', Raine's first work as a dramatist, premiered at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London in the summer of 2006. The play, which she also directed, transferred to the

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later that autumn. She won both the 2006

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's Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright and the Most Promising Playwright Award at the 2006 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards. ''Rabbit'' was performed in

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in June 2007 at the

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Festival. Raine's second play ''

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'' was produced by the

in London, in October 2010, directed by

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and starring Harry Treadaway, Michelle Terry and

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. It had its Australian premiere at the

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in February 2012, and its North American premiere at New York City's Barrow Street Theatre, also in 2012. It was then produced by Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland in February 2015. ''Tribes'' is about a deaf son who is raised in a dysfunctional, Jewish, hearing family (Raine is Jewish on her mother's side). ''Tiger Country'', commissioned by Hampstead Theatre and produced by

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, opened in January 2011. Raine also directed and dramaturged ''Behind the Image'' by

, which premiered at the Royal Court's 2008 Rough Cuts Season. In 2013 she directed ''Longing'', an adaptation of two

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stories by novelist

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. Her fourth play, ''

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'', premiered at the National Theatre in April 2017, in a co-production with Out of Joint. Directed by

, it starred Anna Maxwell Martin, Ben Chaplin and Pip Carter. Her fifth play, Bach & Sons, is a work on the life of

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at the Bridge Theatre, with

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as the composer in the premiere production.

References

External links

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