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Born in Bangalore to a cross-cultural family whose mother is from South India and father comes from Rajasthan, Nalini migrated to U.S.A at the age of nine. She grew up amidst American culture while retaining her Indian roots.  Her talents encompass the essence of worldly traditions, performing arts and professionalism. 

 

A recent graduate of the acclaimed Maggie Flanigan Studio, she can be seen in various theater, film and commercial productions in New York City.  She has been nominated for best featured actress for her performance in M*A*S*H at Onstage Atlanta and placed as a Top Three finalist at the Annual Talent Pool Reel Actors Film Festival in LA for her dramatic film reel. 

 

 

 "Dance at the edge of time like dew on the tip of a leaf" - a quote by Rabindranath Tagore

 

One of my favorite things that kept me going when I was young was when my great grand-mother would tell me stories of the Indian epics, Mahabharata and Ramayana, little by little every night before I went to bed.  It took her four years to complete it.  But those years were the beginnings of the sparks of my imagination, expanding to fill my great grandmother's words with life and meaning.

 


Its what I do as an actor, bring words to life and bring life to meaning. Influences in my craft today are Auguste Rodin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Otto Dix, Shakespeare, Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore, Tom Stoppard, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis, Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Sanford Meisner, Maggie Flanigan, my fellow artists and classmates and colleagues and musicians and people of this city who live, live, live - Nalini.

PRESS

Reviews from play "Day of The Picnic" at the nationally acclaimed theater People's Light & Theater Co.

- "Nalini Sharma plays Udaya...with an innocent charm" - Kaitlyn Foti Montgomery Papers Theater Review

- "...and its not too often you get to watch a forceful cast..." - Wendy Rosenfield Philadelphia Inquirer

Reviews from "The Great Recession" at The Obie Award Winning Flea Theater NYC

 -the prospects after an evening with the Bats seem a little brighter!” – NY Theatre

-Played with great energy and specificity by the Bats, the plays are fast and furious snapshots of the effects of the world economic downturn. The many Bats spread their wings and soar.” – Backstage

-the prospects after an evening with the Bats seem a little brighter!” – NY Theatre

-Played with great energy and specificity by the Bats, the plays are fast and furious snapshots of the effects of the world economic downturn. The many Bats spread their wings and soar.” – Backstage

Reviews from "A Servant Of Two Masters" 

-" And I particularly like .. Nalini Sharma's funny modern takes on the traditional zanniservants that seem to give a nod to the Secret Theatre's location on the 7 subway line (sometimes called the International Express). " - NY Theatre