Biography
Erika Nadir is an actor and singer based in Los Angeles. Her recent projects include the Hollywood Fringe Festival's Italian-English production of The Original English in 2018, and in 2019, she was seen as Nora in the Springfield Contemporary Theatre production of Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House 2. In 2021, she portrayed Florence Foster Jenkins in their production of SOUVENIR. Her film and TV credits include: The Hearts that Bleed and Bloom (LA Shorts Festival), Beti, O Brawling Love!, Losing Mom, Connected, For a Moment, Open Casket, Glimpse into Blue, The Letter, Waves, Our Mom, Muses, The Laundromat, This is Gerald, The Handoff and the TV spec pilot, Sunday.
Other stage appearances include productions of Back to Methuselah, A Doll's House, Mary Mary, The Time of Your Life, Antigone, The Infernal Machine, Pygmalion, There's a Girl in My Soup, Rhinoceros, Wild Honey, The Country Wife, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Frankenstein.
Erika has performed the traditional operatic canon for nearly 17 years including La Bohème, Carmen, Pagliacci, La Traviata, The Barber of Seville, I Pagliacci, Crispino e la Comare, La Cena delle Beffe, Don Giovanni, Così Fan Tutte, Madame Butterfly, Un Ballo in Maschera, Rigoletto, Hansel & Gretel, Amahl & the Night Visitors, Falstaff, Aida, Manon, and The Magic Flute, as well as originating roles in two American premières of the South American composer, Antonio Carlos Gomez: Salvator Rosa and Lo Schiavo, and the title role of the first fully-staged American première of Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Alzira. She has also performed fully-staged opera tours in the New York City elementary school system. Her operetta and musical theatre credits include Showboat, The Desert Song, The Merry Widow, The New Moon, The Fantastiks, Babes in Arms, and 1776.
