About the Artist

NIGEL SEMAJ. (they/them) is a Baltimore-based director, movement director, choreographer, and educator from Washington, D.C. Nigel is an Assistant Professor of Performance and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Gender, Womens and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Notable directing credits include the Off-Broadway Premiere of Bloodshot by Elinor T. Vanderburg, Ntozake Shanges Spell No. 7 as well as new works such as Black Hollow by Aeneas Sagar Hemphill and wolfchildren runslowly through a Bruegel landscape, 1558 by Reid Tang. Upcoming, they are directing Calley Andersons Collective Empathy Formation From 1968 and 2018 at NYCs Downtown Urban Arts Festival (June 2024). Their adaptation work includes a five-woman adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus entitled 10, 000 Moor, For Hylas, a queer retelling of the Hercules myth, and Call Me By Any Other NameJust As Sweet: a queer deconstruction of Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet, and an upcoming adaptation of Shakespeares Macbeth titled the serpent undert to premiere at UMBC in the Spring of 2026. Nigels work as a Movement Director can be found within their own body of work: recent credits include Movement Director/Fight Director of Heartbeat Opera Companys adaptation of Beethovens Fidelio by Marcus Scott, which became a NY Times Critics Pick and as Movement Director/Fight Director for the award-winning short horror film Not Him, written and directed by Sarah Young. Nigels academic tenure in higher education includes policy creation/amendment, creating protocols and policies around equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism. Their current scholarly work is developing anti-racist pedagogies in theater education, including explorations of anarchist pedagogies and bell hooks pedagogy of freedom. They are a proud member of the American Alliance for Theater Education and Co-Editor of their EelevAATE Platform

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