Nadya Wynd

Bio

Nadya Wynd began a transition from a career as a counselor, social worker and teacher in 1982 when she began studying acting in Austin, Texas. In 1983 she coordinated Plays for Living, a program of plays about social issues, which was produced by the Family Service Association of America. During this time she also wrote and directed a play about teenage pregnancy.

In 1983 Nadya entered the Graduate Program in Film Production at the University of Texas. In 1986 she moved to Los Angeles where she worked as an actress and in production positions in film, television and theater. She also began work on her first spec screenplay, an adaptation of a six hundred-page epic novel about the beginnings of modern medicine by a best selling, American author.

After moving to Kauai in 1991, this novel became a record-breaking best seller in Germany and Austria. After a bidding war between several companies she was hired as writer/co-producer by one of the most successful and well-respected film companies in Germany. After a three-year development odyssey in both Germany and the United States, the film was ultimately not produced.

Upon moving to Santa Cruz, California in 1993, Nadya taught drama and creative writing and wrote, produced and directed original musical theater for several years.

Nobody's Boy, her most successful production, premiered at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium in 2002 to near sell-out audiences. Set in the passionate, magical world of a Gypsy circus family traveling through France in 1889, it was inspired by the classic French novel, Sans Famille by Hector Malot. The production was staged as theater in the round and featured lots of live Gypsy music and dance, circus performances and a real draft horse pulling a Gypsy wagon on stage.

In 1999 Nadya wrote, produced and directed The Beautiful Illusion, a short film starring De Lane Matthews (co-star of "Dave's World" and "From the Earth to the Moon") and Tyrone Power Jr. ("Cocoon" and "Cocoon, the Return".) It was an official selection of the New York Independent Film Festival and the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. It also screened in Berkeley and Santa Cruz, California and Miami and Hollywood, Florida and aired on PBS television.

Returning to Kauai at the end of 2002, Nadya has focused her energy on writing the screenplay for Secret of the Crystal Skulls and several magazine articles.

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