Nina Ball is an award winning scenic designer whose work has been seen at American Conservatory Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, Shotgun Players, San Francisco Playhouse, TheatreFIRST, The Cutting Ball Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre Company, Center Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Mime Troupe, and Z Space, among many others. She has also been a company member at Shotgun Players since 2009.
Recent awards include a Theatre Bay Area award for The Nether at San Francisco Playhouse, San Francisco Bay Area Critic Circle awards for her designs of My Fair Lady at San Francisco Playhouse and Metamorphosis at the Aurora; a Shellie award for Mirandolina at Center REP, a Broadway World San Francisco Award for Care of Trees at Shotgun Players and an Arty Award for her design of Eurydice at Solano College Theatre. In addition to theatre, Ms. Ball has worked on numerous film, TV and commercial productions locally and in LA.
Ms. Ball holds a bachelors degree in biology with a emphasis in marine ecology from UC Santa Cruz and studied fine art and photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City. She received her masters degree in scenic design with a costume design secondary from San Francisco State University.
Ms. Ball is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829.