Hello, I’m Nadir!

I am a world builder and shaper of spaces. I’ve created spaces as a Scenic Designer/Production Designer, Scenic Artist, and Technical Director. As a black creative, I want to bring life to unexpected worlds that we can truly see and feel ourselves in. Not just merely dreaming and aspiring, but actually bringing these spaces to reality. The journey of cultivating, curating, and creating spaces for my community is the fire that inspires and fulfills my being as an artist.

See my CV below. Resume available upon request.

CONTACT.

designbynadir@gmail.com

CV

THEATER

UPCOMING Red Pitch Olney Theatre Center, September 2025, Dir. Daniel Bailey

UPCOMING The Piano Lesson 1st Stage, June 2025, Dir. Danielle Drakes

UPCOMING Cullud Wattah Mosaic Theater, April 2025, Dir. Danielle Drakes.

UPCOMING American Fast Theater Alliance, March 2025, Dir. Reginald Douglas.

Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill Mosaic Theater 2024, Dir. Reginald Douglas.

Frontieres Sans Frontieres Spooky Action 2024, Dir. Elizabeth Dinkova.

Sonnets & Soul Howard University, 2024, Dir. Dell Howlett.

The Chosen 1st Stage, September 2023, Dir. Alex Levy. [Helen Hayes Award nominated for Outstanding Set Design]

Confederates Mosaic Theater, October 2023, Dir. Stori Ayers.

The Honey Trap Solas Nua, November 2023, Dir. Matt Torney.

Monsters of the American Cinema Prologue, 2023, Dir. Jason Tamborini.

One in Two Mosaic Theater, 2023, Dir. Raymond Caldwell.

Anatomy of Love Solomon’s Word Theatre Initiative, 2023, Dir. Rickey Solomon.

Angel Number Nine Rorschach Theater, 2023, Dir. Jenny McConnell.

Sense & Sensibility Imagination Stage, 2023, Dir. Charlotte La Nasa.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Howard University, 2023, Dir. Kevin McAllister.

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year Olney Theatre Center, 2022, Dir. Kevin McAllister.

The Rainmaker 1st Stage , 2022 Dir. Deidra Starnes. [Helen Hayes Award nominated for Outstanding Set Design]

Playboy of the Western World Solas Nua, 2022, Dir. Shanara Gabrielle

Little Women Next Stop Theatre, 2022, Dir. Charlotte La Nasa.

Pass Over Chester Theatre Company, 2022, Dir. Christina Franklin.

Anatomy of Love Solomon’s Word Theatre Initiative, 2022, Dir. Rickey Solomon.

Lysistrata Theater at Monmouth, 2022, Dir. Danielle Drakes.

Maz & Bricks Solas Nua, 2022, Dir. Rex Daugherty

Christmas Eve Expats Theater, 2022, Dir. Karin Rosnizeck

Man Covets Bird Spooky Action Theater, 2021, Dir. Shanara Gabrielle

Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner Brown University, 2021, Dir. Jessica Smith

The Bacchae 2.1 Hangar Theatre, 2021, Dir. Cara Hinh

Wonderful Wizard of Oz Hangar Theatre Kiddstuff, 2021, Dir. Jasmine Gunter

Police Hangar Theatre, 2021, Dir. Nicholas Polonio

Elephant & Piggie: We’re In a Play Hangar Theatre Kiddstuff, 2021, Dir. Christian Avila

The Agitators Theater at Monmouth, 2021, Dir. Debra Ann Byrd

Forever Burning Coal, 2021 , Dir. Jordan Lichtenheld

Until the Flood Burning Coal, 2021, Dir. Renee Nixon

La Clemenza Di Tito A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute, February 2020, Dir. Steve Lacosse

Pass Over Keys to the Kingdom, UNCSA December 2019, Dir. Sam Sherman

Pinocchio Maine State Music Theater, August 2019, Dir. Ray Dumont

Still Life with Rocket UNCSA School of Drama, February 2019, Dir. Mollye Maxner

FILM

Absent Prod. Design. Short Film. Filmed in 2024, Written by Thomas Walter Booker, Dir. Amani Meliyah. [In Post Production]

Becoming Prod. Design. Short Film. Filmed in 2021, Written & Dir. Tramaine Raphael Gray

Kindred Kings Set Decorator. Short Film. Filmed in 2019, Written & Dir. Tramaine Raphael Gray

EDUCATION

UNCSA. BFA - Set Design 2020

Hangar Theater Fellowship. Set Design 2021

William R. Kenan Fellowship at the Kennedy Center. Set Design 2021-2022