The 52nd Street Project, Hell's Kitchen, NYC

I'll be heading to Block Island for the One-On-One's in July!  The Chancy Plays: Heads or Tails... Here We Come!!  We'll be performing here in NY, July 22-24.  As volunteer actor, dramaturg, director and tutor with the 52nd Street Project, I have assisted the Youth Playmaking Workshop, acted in 10-year old playwright Tatiana Goode's "Bloody Boom Box," (with Michael Potts, directed by Awoye Timpo); and dramaturged, directed and acted in 13-year old Lauren Robinson's  "Fixing Inventions". This is a great organization in a new state of the art facility and the kids are amazing! Come check us out!! For more info visit The 52nd Street Project's website:www.52project.org

A Professionally Trained Actress                                                Headshot                       Resumé

Nehassaiu completed Trinity Rep Conservatory and upon graduation was invited by Oskar Eustis to join Trinity's Resident Acting Company, where she was the Peter Kaplan Memorial Fellow 2003/04.  Regional Theatre Credits include "Chrysler Building, Joy, Mrs Safran," Tallest Building In The World; "Octavia & Menas," Antony & Cleopatra, Take Wing and Soar, NYC; "The Nurse" in EQUUS,"  Guild Hall; "Betty," A Song For My Father at Oldcastle Theatre; and Catherine" in Proof, "Rose Rose" in Cider House Rules, "Lisa Body" in the world premiere of Robert Alexander's A Preface To The Alien Garden and "Gladys" in The Skin of Our Teeth at Trinity Rep; "Virgilia" in Coriolanus at Shakespeare & Co.,"Dinah" in Lisa D'Amour's The Cataract. Directors she has worked with include Tony Walton, Amanda Dehnert, Brooke O'Harra, Jeremy Cohen, Kevin Moriarty, Tina Packer, Troy Miller and Oskar Eustis. 

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Summer 2010

Nehassaiu brings compassion and sensitivity to her portrayal of "The Nurse" in Sir Peter Shaffer's award-winning play, EQUUS, directed by Tony Walton and starring Alec Baldwin and Sam Underwood. Then at Oldcastle Theatre, where Melissa Leo has starred in recent years, Nehassaiu creates "Nurse Betty," in the Equity premiere of poet-playwright David Budbill's moving new play, A SONG FOR MY FATHER.