„Nina Kupczyk hat in der Vergangenheit durch eine ganze Reihe überaus gelungener Arbeiten auf sich aufmerksam gemacht, etwa „Der Kaiser von Atlantis“ von Viktor Ullmann. Zuletzt setzte sie sich unter dem hübsch sperrigen Titel „urmozart@amadeus_total.kind.de“ auf faszinierende Weise mit Mozart auseinander. Der Regie-Guru Peter Konwitschny adelte Nina Kupczyk mit der Feststellung: „Sie können Theater entfesseln.“ (Hamburger Abendblatt, April 2013) 

Born in Bremen Nina Kupczyk is a theatre and film director and author.

Nina Kupczyk studied opera direction and multimedial composition at the College for Music and Theatre Hamburg under Peter Konwitschny, Calixto Bieito and studied Psychology at Bremen University. She sat in/assisted, among others, by Peter Konwitschny, Werner Schroeter und Andreas Homoki at the Bremen theatre, Hamburg State Operahouse and Komische Oper Berlin. She completed her studies with Direction Master courses by Peter Konwitschny.

Up to now she has directed and produced for Radio Bremen, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg (Des Kindes Mozart), at the theatre in Kiel the children’s opera “La figlia del Mago“ (DE), at the Hamburg State Opera House ”The Kaiser from Atlantis“, Amadeus Superstar (direction and text) at the Monsun-Theatre Hamburg and at the Theater unterm Dach Berlin, “Vanitas“ by Salvatore Sciarrino at Hamburg State Opera , “Cosi fan tutte“ at Opernloft Hamburg, “Was ein Prophet auch künde“ a scenic cycle to poems by Daniil Charms at Hamburg State Opera), “Rusalka” at Theater Hagen, “Don Giovanni at Opera Halle, “Don Pasquale” at Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz, Butterfly for Opernloft Hamburg.
Since 2014 she has been writing and developing new formats for young audiences: for the Philharmonie Luxembourg and Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg with international teams, ensembles and musicians in four languages:

»Peer Gynt 2.0« Philharmonic Luxembourg, direction and text / world premiere (orchestra project)
»Vivaldi’s Last Dance« Philharmonic Luxembourg, direction and text / world premiere (orchester project)
»The Sorcerer’s Apprentice« Philharmonic Luxembourg, direction and text / world premiere (orchester project)
»Die Sterntaler« Philharmonic Luxembourg, direction and text / world premiere
»Cinderella« Philharmonic Luxembourg, direction and lyrics (german, french), composition Ivan Bourmans Coproduction of the Luxembourg Philharmonic / premiere with Festival Lucerne / Swiss premiere
»Bout’chou«, Philharmonic Luxembourg, direction and lyrics (german, english, french, luxemburgish)
»Loopino 2016/17« Philharmonic Luxembourg, 6-part project series with 6 international ensembles, direction and lyrics (luxembourgish, french) / world premieres
„Nutcracker“ Philharmonic Luxembourg, direction and text / world premiere (orchestra project)
»Loopino 2017/18« Philharmonic Luxembourg, 5-part project series with 5 international ensembles, direction and lyrics (luxembourgish, french) / world premieres
»Pinocchio« Philharmonic Luxembourg, direction and text / world premiere, composition Gordon Kampe
»Kalif Storch« Philharmonic Luxembourg, direction and text / world premiere.

And »The queen of colours «, »Don Quiotte« and »The little nutcracker« for the Festspielhaus St. Pölten, »Don Giovanni« with Jeunesse Wien and Konzerthaus Wien and »Scheherazade« with Jeunesse Wien and Konzerthaus Wien, »Der Freischütz« for Musikverein Wien and “Renard” with Berliner Philharmoniker under the direction of Oksana Lyniv.

She shot, together with Studio Hamburg, the cinematic art film „Des Kindes Mozart_sotto voce.in der Nacht“, an „important piece of work demonstrating a theatre in film“ and which was so important that the Board of Film Classification Wiesbaden honored it with a „Prädikat“ and it was shown at film festivals in Konstanz and Oberhausen as well as the Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg.

Since 1995 Nina Kupczyk has published various texts in magazines and anthologies (Federwelt, Worthandelverlag, S. Fischer-Verlag, Athena-Verlag). Her texts were broadcast by various Radio Broadcasting Corporations (Nordwestradio, Deutschlandfunk). In 2000 she was invited to the Bookexpo Chicago with her novel „The Lehrer und das Wunderkind“.

In 2005 the lyric and prose volume „Aus der verbotenen Stadt“ was published. ln 2013 – 2021 „Liebe und andere Ungereimheiten“ and „Sehnsucht“ by Athena-Verlag, in 2015 „Die Kunst der Empathie“ by Akademiker Verlag.
Nina Kupczyk received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Association, the Music and Theatre College Hamburg, and the International Forum des „Berliner Theatertreffens“.