Nilaja Sun (No Child…) is an actor, playwright and teaching artist. No Child… was directed by Hal Brooks, originally commissioned and produced by Epic Theatre Ensemble and received an Off Broadway run at the Barrow St. Theatre. For her creation and performance of No Child… and its subsequent international tour, Nilaja garnered 21 awards including: an Obie Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards including the John Gassner Playwriting Award for Outstanding New American Play, a Theatre World Award, the Helen Hayes Award, two NAACP Theatre Awards, and was awarded the soloNOVA Award for Artist of the Year by terraNOVA Collective. 

Her latest solo piece Pike St., directed by Ron Russell and originally commissioned and produced by Epic, had its world premiere at the Abrons Arts Center in the Lower East Side, which was followed by an international tour at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Pillsbury House, Detroit Public Theatre, Northampton’s Academy of Music and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, as well as Melbourne, Australia, Dublin, Ireland and Edinburgh, Scotland where it won the Edinburgh Award.

Other theatre credits include: The Cook (Intar), The Commons of Pensacola (Manhattan Theatre Club) and Public Enemy (Pearl Theatre).

TV/FILM: Madam Secretary, The Good Wife, BrainDead, 30 Rock, Law & Order: SVU, Unforgettable, Louie, The International, Youth in Oregon and Rubicon. 

A native of the Lower East Side, she is a Princess Grace Award recipient, and has taught drama, playwriting and solo performance in high schools and colleges in New York, New Jersey, Hartford and Bridgeport, CT, Detroit, MI, Washington D.C, Oakland, CA, and Tanzania, Africa for 20 years.