Nadia Migdal

Born in Herne in 1984, growing up in Bochum, Nadia Migdal began playing the violin at the age of five and won first prizes in the musical competition "Jugend musiziert". She stopped her persued ice hockey career, when she first saw a performance at the Schauspielhaus in Bochum at the age of twelve. During the Abitur she played various roles there. In 2005, she began studying acting at the Zurich University of the Arts, where she finished her master's
degree in 2010 (MA). After playing at the Zurich Schauspielhaus and at the Theater of the Arts in Zurich, she was already engagend to the Landestheater Tübingen while still studying.
In 2007, she received the sponsorship award of the Armin-Ziegler Foundation, and at the „Theatertreffen of German-speaking drama schools“ in 2008, she won both jury and audience award with the musical theater production «You must remember this». In 2011, she was nominated as the best young actress in the well renowned journal "Theater Heute", and in 2017 she was nominated fort he Germand Comedy Award for the sketch comedy „Knallerkerle“.
In 2013, Nadia Migdal moved to Vienna to work as a freelancer, for instance at the Salzburg State Theatre, at the Klosterspiele Wettingen, Switzerland, at the Theaterhaus Gessnerallee in Zurich and at the Vienna Burgtheater. In seasons 2015/16 and 2016/17 she was engaged at the Theater Trier. Since 2017 Nadia Migdal works as a freelancer for film and TV and theater, such as the korso-op collective and the State Theater Saarbrücken and is currently based in Tel Aviv and Bochum.