Nora Armani was born in Giza, Egypt

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

 of Armenian parents, educated and trained in England and as an actor has appeared on stage and screen worldwide performing in different languages. She has also directed a number of plays, a feature film and short film. She holds an M.Sc. degree from the University of London (London School of Economics

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

) and a BA from the American University in Cairo

American University in Cairo

The American University in Cairo is an independent, non-profit, apolitical, secular institution of higher learning located in Cairo, Egypt...

. She has continued her training at UCLA Extension http://www.uclaextension.edu and RADA

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is a drama school located in London, United Kingdom. It is generally regarded as one of the most renowned drama schools in the world, and is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, having been founded in 1904.RADA is an affiliate school of the...

 in acting and directing, in addition to a number of noteworthy workshops such as Ariane Mnouchkine

Ariane Mnouchkine

Ariane Mnouchkine is a world-renowned French stage director. She founded the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble Théâtre du Soleil in 1964. She has written and directed 1789 and Molière , and in 1989, she directed La Nuit Miraculeuse...

’s worldwide acclaimed Théâtre du Soleil

Théâtre du Soleil

Le Théâtre du Soleil is a Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble founded by Ariane Mnouchkine, Philippe Léotard and fellow students of the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in 1964 as a collective of theatre artists. Le Théâtre du Soleil is located at La Cartoucherie, a former munitions...

 http://www.theatre-du-soleil.fr (Paris) and Simon MacBurney’s equally well known physical theatre

Physical theatre

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 Complicity Theatre http://www.complicite.org (London).

Her stage work includes: The Lover

The Lover (play)

The Lover is a 1962 one-act play by Harold Pinter. Pinter leads the audience to believe that there are three characters in the play: the wife, the husband and the lover. But the lover who comes to call in the afternoons is revealed to be the husband adopting a role. He plays the lover for her: she...

 (Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter, CH, CBE was a Nobel Prize–winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party , The Homecoming , and Betrayal , each of which he adapted to...

 - Los Angeles) with Aramazd Stepanian

Aramazd Stepanian

Aramazd Stepanian is an Iranian-Armenian actor, producer, director and playwright born in Abadan, Iran.He grew up in Tehran and finished High School in 1969. He left Tehran for Manchester, England at 18 for further education...

, Evocations of Armenia http://www.Metmuseum.org (Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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, New York), Beyond the Veil (Off-Broadway

Off-Broadway

Off-Broadway theater is a term for a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts...

), Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (Arcola Theatre

Arcola Theatre

Arcola Theatre is a studio theatre in Dalston, in the London Borough of Hackney. The theatre's ambition is to create and present high-quality theatre with a social and political relevance to its multicultural local community as well as a wider audience....

 http://www.arcolatheatre.com - London), The King and I

The King and I

The King and I is a stage musical, the fifth by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The work is based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon and derives from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, who became governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in...

 (Cairo), Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid in Latin:"Arma virumque cano" ....

 (Young Vic Theatre - London), On the Couch with Nora Armani (London, Paris, NYC, Los Angeles & on tour), The Virile Celebration (F. Gallaire

Fatima Gallaire

Fatima Gallaire is a Franco-Algerian playwright and short stories author, who writes in French.She was born in 1944 in Algeria, and holds a degree in French literature from Algiers University, and one of cinema from Vincennes University....

 – Paris), No Possible Return (H. Ghazanchyan – National Theatre of Armenia) to name a few.

Films & TV include: Santa Claus in Baghdad, Enchanted, The Doors of Denis, Le Néflier, La Nouvelle Eve, Deadline in Seven Days, Last Station (as co-director), Labyrinth, Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

 (BBC

BBC

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-TV) and Friends (Egyptian-TV).

Her own stage creations Sojourn at Ararat (with Gerald Papasian http://www.abrilbooks.com/videos/9905.html.com), Nannto Nannto, On the Couch with Nora Armani and Snowflakes in April have garnered international accolades.

Directorial work includes: William Saroyan

William Saroyan

William Saroyan was an Armenian American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno.-Early years:...

’s Papa You’re Crazy–Yerevan, Armenia (adapted and directed), Sojourn at Ararat (The Fountain Theatre

The Fountain Theatre

The Fountain Theatre is one of the premier intimate theatres in Los Angeles. Along with its programming of live theatre, it's also the foremost producer of Flamenco on the West Coast.-History:...

 http://www.fountaintheatre.com - Los Angeles), J.J. Varoujean’s Forest at the Bottom of the Sea (Paris & Los Angeles), Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a National Book Award for his novel The Eighth Day.-Early years:Wilder was born in Madison,...

’s Bernice (Off-Broadway- Producers Club), Snowflakes in April (Chicago, Detroit), Nannto, Nanto (Paris & Venice), Last Station (feature film), Evocations of Armenia (MET Museum New York).

Awards: Two Drama-Logue awards for Performance and Creation for Sojourn at Ararat, Best Performance & Creation (Armenia), Best Actress in film for Labyrinth (Armenia).
Nora Armani is an Honorary Member of the National Theatre of Armenia.
Her poems and essays are published in anthologies and literary journals

Literary magazine

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. Her plays have been broadcast on radio Aligre FM in Paris.

Following Los Angeles (1981–1993) and Paris/London (since 1993), Nora currently divides her time between New York and Paris.