NELLIE TINDER IS THE COMPANY OF JULIA MAY JONAS 

Nellie Tinder is the company of Julia May Jonas.  Nellie Tinder has attempted the creation of instructive and appropriate art since 2003.  Nellie Tinder has presented dance-theater, solo shows and original plays at venues including Galapagos Arts Space, Brooklyn Information & Culture, WAX at University Settlement, The Bushwick Starr, HERE Arts Center, Tonic, La Mama ETC. and PS122.  Nellie Tinder collaborators past and present include Jon Lundbom, Jennie MaryTai Liu, Hannah Heller, Jenny Seastone Stern, Beth Kurkjian, Meghan Ritchie, Jess Barbagallo and many others.   Julia attributes her greatest education to a lazy love of lying down and reading, lying down and watching movies, lying down and listening to music and singing and dancing to pass the time.  She is a Columbia University MFA Candidate (2012) in Playwriting, studying under Charles Mee and Kelly Stuart.  Email her: julia@nellietinder.org 

Nellie Tinder's aesthetic devotes itself to organic artistic innovation.

Jon Lundbom, Beth Kurkjian, Jenny Seastone Sten and Julia May Jonas in The Penitent Hours: Photo by Brett Beyer