About Hadley

Hadley Evans Nash is a director, actor, playwright, and the Founder and Artistic Director of Brick by Brick Players. She champions Theatre of Joy in the Traumatized Body, or theatre that sees those that have been traumatized not just as victims, but as full humans capable of immense and revolutionary joy.

 Hadley is also the creator of Safely Thus: Hope and Healing Through Shakespeare, Brick by Brick Players’ revolutionary somatic healing through Shakespeare program.

As Director: Twelfth Night, Henry V, King Lear, Cymbeline, My Dance with Lisa, And Through the Woods, The Tempest (Brick by Brick Players), The Tempest (StageDoor Manor), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespearean Youth Theatre), On the Road to Bremen Town (Black Hills Playhouse)

As Actor: Romeo and Juliet (South Dakota Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Macbeth, Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Importance of Being Earnest (Tennessee Shakespeare Company), On the Road to Bremen Town (Black Hills Playhouse), The Importance of Being Earnest (Phoenix Art's Nest)

Training: Shakespeare and Company, National Theatre Institute, Tennessee Shakespeare Company, Saint Olaf College

Awards and Recognitions: 2026 Minnesota Arts Board Creative Individual, 2026 Metropolitian Regional Arts Council Creative Connections, Playwriting Fellow at Vermont Studio Center, Artist in Resident (The Sable Project)

Upcoming: Every Brilliant Thing (Brick by Brick Players)