Nina Ball (she/ her) is a scenic designer, visual artist, and teacher based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has been seen at American Conservatory Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep., St. Louis Rep., Theatreworks, California Shakespeare Theater, Shotgun Players, San Francisco Playhouse, Marin Theatre Company,  Aurora Theatre Company, among many others. 

Recent 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, How I Learned What I Learned (transferred to Seattle Rep), and Confederates (transferred to St. Louis Rep) at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Hamlet and Twelfth Night at Marin Shakespeare Company, and In Every Generation at Theatreworks. Other awards include TBA awards for Blasted at Shotgun Players and The Nether at SF Playhouse. SFBACC awards for My Fair Lady at SF Playhouse, Metamorphosis at the Aurora.  

Ms. Ball is also a production designer and has worked on numerous film, TV and commercial productions locally and in LA. 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 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.

Ms. Ball has been a company member at Shotgun Players in Berkeley since 2009 and is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829.

She teaches Scenic Design at Stanford University.