Nic Green is a performance maker and activist, brought up in Yorkshire, but based in Glasgow. Her work is based on the environment, social responsibility and relationships.[1] She is well known for her use of nudity on stage, for example Trilogy (2009–2010),[2] which is a two-hour show in three parts. It is a feminist, political statement on the body where she, three other women and a man are naked for the duration of it as well as asking members of the audience to take their clothes off too.
Nic Green | |
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| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland |
| Notable work | Trilogy |
| Awards | Forced Entertainment Award |
Nic Green graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Performance Practises.[3]
She often focusses her work within communities and public arts with her areas of influence and research being varied and cross many disciplines from Systems Thinking to Jungian Synchronicity.[4] Her past projects have been about spaces, about radical and engaged and making the political more accessible. For example, she led a project in collaboration with Artsadmin titled 'Make Space' in 2013 and was four-week project challenging ideas on how people see and experience the space around us.[5]
She was the recipient of the inaugural Forced Entertainment Award, in memory of Huw Chadbourn for 2018[6] and was also the 2018 Artist in Residence at National Theatre Scotland.[7]
Some of her earlier works include: