Jina Nam is a NYC based actress, singer, dancer, and educator with Masters from New York University (NYU). Jina first studied Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Theater Arts at University of California, Santa Cruz, and worked as a research scientist in the Neuroscience Laboratory at Stanford University before she moved to New York City to pursue her career in music and musical theater. For many years, she performed with theater companies in San Francisco Bay Area in shows such as West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Cats, and Anything Goes. After coming to New York City, she studied musical theater at CAP21 Conservatory, and vocal pedagogy and music education in the graduate program at NYU.
Jina currently has her own private voice studio in addition to coaching through Broadway Artists Alliance (BAA) and Gill Mindful Voice Training (GMVT) where she enjoys working with students of all ages and backgrounds. In addition, Jina is on the voice faculty at Marymount Manhattan college, and has taught at NYU and in New York public schools as a music teacher in K-12th grade.
She has performed extensively in NYC/regional theaters such as the Off-Broadway production of Comfort Women: A New Musical (NamSoon Lee), Going West with B Street Theatre (Hopkins/BaoJia/Miss Pearl), A Thousand Cranes (Sadako), The King and I (Tuptim), Guys and Dolls (Sarah Brown), Avenue Q (Christmas Eve), A Chorus Line (Connie Wong), Miss Saigon (Swing/Dance Captain), Fantasticks (The Mute/Dance Captain), and Rent (Alexi Darling) to name a few.
Previously, Jina was the Admissions Director at BAA of New York City, the NYC’s elite Musical Theater training program for young performers. She is also currently a speech-language pathologist at the Sean Parker Institute for the Voice, Weill Cornell Medicine, specializing in voice, upper airway, and swallowing disorders. She is a member of the International Honor Society in Education (Kappa Delta Pi), Voice Foundation (vf), National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), New York State Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NYSSLHA), American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), and Actors’ Equity Association (AEA).
