Nadia trained as a director at RADA under Bill Gaskill and Sue Dunderdale. Nadia’s theatre career has included work for the Donmar Warehouse, RSC, Almeida, Arcola and Bush theatres. From 2018 to 2020 she was Associate Director of the Young Vic. Her first short film White Girl was funded by the BFI and screened in competition at the 2019 LFF. In 2020 she directed a short sci-fi film for Film4, They Heard Him Shout Allahu Akbar. In 2019, she was one of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow, and in 2020, she was a Sundance Screenwriters Lab fellow. Her debut feature film, The Man In My Basement, starring Corey Hawkins & Willem Dafoe, premiered at TIFF in 2025, and is now streaming on Disney+/Hulu. In Spring 2026, she will direct the stage adaptation of Babak Anvari’s film Under the Shadow at the Almeida Theatre.
She is from Sudan and based in London.
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