Nellie Tinder has presented theater and solo-shows at venues throughout New York including the Ontological Hysteric Theater Incubator, University Settlement, Dixon Place, The Bushwick Starr, HERE Arts Center, Tonic, La Mama E.T.C. and P.S. 122 (with Terra Nova). NT regularly appears at the Catch! Series, curated by Andrew Dinwiddie and Jeff Larson. As the artistic director of Nellie Tinder, Julia May Jonas has held residencies at The Bushwick Starr and Chashama, received a space grant from Brooklyn Arts eXchange, and has had her writing published in the Brooklyn Review. She is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at Columbia University under the tutelage of Charles Mee and Kelly Stuart; she is the recipient of the Thea Fellowship and the Liberace Scholarship.

Nellie Tinder is the company that produces the theatrical projects of Julia May Jonas. NT devotes itself to the creation of fully original work that combines formal innovation with moral investigation.

I am interested in creating a unique, highly personal idiom of theater that is musical, physical, insightful, spiritual, and tells a story. I am an egalitarian appreciator: I get absorbed in the drama of a good play or the insight of a novel, I love the pace and rhythms of a symphony, musical, or pop song, I am slain by the intangible wisdom and spectacle in post-modern dance, I have a strange, quiet relationship with paintings and photographs. The work that I create with Nellie Tinder seeks to intuitively combine an unlimited range of performance, visual and textual styles in the pursuit of a theatrical experience that is singular, belonging to itself, and rests on its own intrinsic norms.

I am interested the topical, the timely or the relevant only if it reveals greater insight about the non-topical, untimely or irrelevant aspects of humanity. I am most interested in how the individual comes to impose order on her own, personal, universe now that faith is not a mandate, but a choice. I am interested in the tiny moments – tiny betrayals, tiny acts of love, tiny triumphs, and tiny tragedies. Exploring all this, I try to make the work I want to see.