NINA BALL
NINA BALL (she/ her) is a scenic designer, visual artist and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has been seen at American Conservatory Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory , Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Theatreworks, California Shakespeare Theater, Shotgun Players, San Francisco Playhouse, Marin Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre Company, among many others.
Notable productions include the West Coast premiere of Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 at Shotgun Players (nominated for a SFBACC Award), Romeo and Juliet and How I Learned What I Learned at OSF (transferred to Seattle Rep and TheatreWorks) . Other awards include TBA awards for Blasted at Shotgun Players and The Nether at San Francisco Playhouse. SFBACC awards for My Fair Lady at San Francisco Playhouse, Metamorphosis at the Aurora, and Nan and the Lower Body at Theatreworks, among many others.
Ball is also a production designer and has worked on numerous film, TV and commercial productions. Notable projects include Pushing Dead by Tom Brown, and A Blank Slate by Sara Eliassen.
She received her MFA in Scenic Design with a Costume Design secondary from San Francisco State University. Ms. Ball holds a bachelor’s degree in biology with an emphasis in marine ecology from UC Santa Cruz and studied visual art and photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City. She teaches Scenic Design at Stanford University.
Ms. Ball has been a company member at Shotgun Players in Berkeley since 2009 and is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829.
Nina Ball-Selected Awards:
Winner of 2020 Shelley award - Best scenic design for The Diary of Anne Frank at Center REPertory
Winner of 2018 Bay Area Critics Circle award - Best scenic design for An Entomologist’s Love Story at San Francisco Playhouse
Winner of 2011 Broadway World Award - Care of Trees at Shotgun Players
Winner of 2017 Shelley award - Best scenic design for Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical at Center REPertory
