Storyteller
Nisha’s award-winning solo shows have toured festivals across Canada, the U.S., and Europe, in both English and French. Her stories have been featured on platforms such as The Moth, Risk!, CBC, PBS, Confabulation, and The Volume Knob.
Solo Shows
ALRIGHT: SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF LIVING
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.
Written and performed by Nisha Coleman
Directed by Paul Van Dyck
Dramaturgy by Stephen Maclean Rogers
Music by Patrick McMaster
Coming to the 2025 Winnipeg Fringe Festival
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.
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. 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.
Mis en scène par Thierry Leblanc.
SELF-EXILE
Born on a swamp to hippie parents, Nisha Coleman had an unusual upbringing. Her solo storytelling show, Self-Exile, transports the audience from trauma to triumph, toddler to young adult, from a swamp in Northern Ontario to the streets of Paris.
Self-Exile is a celebration of our complicated selves and what it really means to “be yourself.” Winner of the Centaur’s Best of Fringe Award, Self-Exile was featured at the 2017 Wildside Festival at the Centaur Theatre in Montreal.
