Nisha is a leading scholar, educator, and advocate in drama therapy and the arts in health. She is the Director of the Program in Drama Therapy and Theatre & Health Lab at NYU, founder of Arts & Health @ NYU, and Chair of the NYU Creative Arts Therapies Consortium. As co-director of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab, established in collaboration with the WHO, she leads a global Lancet series on the health benefits of the arts.
At NYU Abu Dhabi, Nisha developedCan Art Save Lives?, a transdisciplinary course linking arts, health, and policy. She is also a faculty advisor in NYU’s Rehabilitation Sciences and Educational Theatre programs, co-teachingImprovisation and Leadership at NYU Stern. Additionally, she lectures on arts and displacement at the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma.
An award-winning author, Nisha has co-authored and edited books on drama therapy, intercultural practice, and co-production in health. Her research has been published inThe Lancet,Frontiers in Psychology, andThe Arts in Psychotherapy, among others. She has co-produced films and exhibitions, includingDrama Therapy as Performance andFostering Democracy Through Theater.
A founding member of the World Alliance of Drama Therapy, Nisha has received numerous awards, including the NADTA’s Gertrud Schattner Award and the APA’s Global Women’s Advocacy Award. She holds a PhD from Concordia University and a certificate in Climate Change and Health from Yale.
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Host: Anna Robb
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