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Nisha is a co-producer and regular storyteller at Confabulation, a monthly storytelling series in Montreal as well as Enfabulation, the French equivalent. She has performed for storytelling events throughout North America and has taught storytelling for the Quebec Writers' Federation, the Confab Storylab, Montreal Improv Theatre, The Story Collider and many more.
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Interested in having Nisha perform or teach at your event? Need mentorship with a story? Use the contact form!
Storytelling shows
Alright: Solving the Problem of Living
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Written and performed by Nisha Coleman
Directed by Paul Van Dyck
Music by Patrick McMaster
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Acclaimed storyteller Nisha Coleman (Self-Exile, Cornichon) spins a yarn of nail-biting, heart-wrenching, darkly comedic adventures as she gets locked in the Madrid train station with a stray cat, is rescued by the Princess Bride's Westley while busking in Halifax, and saves a young woman from a brush with death in Montreal. Through these true-life stories, Coleman delves boldly into themes of mental illness and suicide, and attempts to “solve the problem of living” by learning to be Alright with being Alive.
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Cornichon
Pour son premier spectacle solo en français, Nisha Coleman vous invite à l'accompagner dans son parcours atypique l’ayant menée à apprendre la langue de Vigneault. En tant qu'anglophone francophile ayant grandi au fin fond de l'Ontario, l'apprentissage du français n'a pas été une mince affaire.
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D’une salle de classe de maternelle aux rues de Paris où elle gagnait sa vie en jouant du violon dans les rues, petit à petit, le français se grave dans son cerveau, mais non sans incident cocasse, embarrassant, et parfois risqué.
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Mis en scène par Thierry Leblanc (diplômé de l’École nationale de théâtre du Canada), Cornichon est une immersion ludique et introspective dans l’apprentissage d’une langue et l'histoire, et le récit très personnel d’une Ontarienne amoureuse du français.
Self-Exile
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Nisha Coleman transports the audience from her hippie childhood in rural swampland to street performing in Paris. Self-Exile is a humorous and compelling exploration of alienation, mental health, and self-identification.
Centaur’s Best of the Fringe Award (Montreal)
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Bill Bowers Award for Excellence (Sarasolos Festival)
“One of the highlights of this year's fringe”
- Cult Montreal
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“A fantastic storyteller, a captivating performer”
- Montreal Rampage