Actress
Vlora Nikçi
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Vlora Nikçi
Vlora Nikçi is an actress from Kosovo.
She was born in the city of Peja and moved to Prishtina as a child. In 1999, she came to America with her family as a refugee from the Kosovo war. She spent her adolescence in Brooklyn, NY, where she completed High School.
For twenty years she has been active not only on the stage but on film and TV; she has featured prominently in diverse festivals. In 2018 she completed the Atlantic Theater Company of New York’s summer school; there she worked with and learned new performance techniques from famous names including F. Murray Abraham.
Short / Thriller
PANDORA
When a relationship goes cold, partners enter a world of a robotic routine. This routine goes on until the pain is fierce and feelings get stone cold. Thereafter, when this burden is unbearable, you can expect everything to happen.
Regjia: Arlinda Morina
Aktori: Dukagjin Podrimaj
Latest
Projects
2022
Muslimani
National Theatre of Kosova
Written by: Enver Petrovci
Character: Nita | Directed: Enver Petrovci
2019
Beast on the Moon
National Theatre of Kosova
Written by: Richard Kalinoski
Character: Seta | Directed: Vlora Nikçi & Butrint Pasha
2017
The Open Couple
Producers Club Theatres, NewYork
Written by: Dario Fo
Character: Wife | Directed: Vlora Nikçi & Armend Baloku
Latest
News
28, June 2019
The cast of Beast on the Moon
The play “Beast on the Moon” by the American author Richard Kalinoski is a tragicomedy about the children of war. Adapting it for actors from Kosovo had a particular power, because each of them was a child of the last war in the country in 1998-1999. All the other artists who worked to realize this play were children who emerged from that war.
It was Vlora Nikçi’s idea to stage this tragicomedy at the National Theater of Kosovo. She began to develop it together with actor Armend Baloku, the two of them representing their own war pain through the characters in the play, Seta and Aram Tomasian. Their team was joined by the representative of victims of sexual violence during the war in Kosovo, Ms. Vasfije Krasniqi Goodman.
In performance, Vlora wore clothing which Kosovo-Albanian women and girls had been wearing during the horrific incidents they endured at the hands of Serbian policemen and soldier during the war in Kosovo – including throughout the scene depicting the character’s memory of rape. These costumes were left at the door of the National Theater anonymously, with the inscription: “Wear our pain and show it to the world.”
Every night, the audience included women and men who were victims of sexual violence during the war in Kosovo when they were children. “It was difficult when I heard sighs, cries, and long-forgotten screams of fear from women and men in the audience during my performance,” said Vlora Nikçi after the premiere.
“Beast on the Moon” thus became a catharsis of war pain for the Albanians of Kosovo and for the artists who created it.