Nina Culley

Nina Culley is a writer and critic based between London and Naarm. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Kill Your Darlings, Liminal, Griffith Review, Mascara Review, and more. She writes regularly on theatre, literature, and the arts for Time Out, Limelight, and ArtsHub. In 2024, she was named one of Mascara Review’s Emerging Critics, and she is a 2025 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow. Nina has previously worked as an Editorial Assistant at Kill Your Darlings.

Nina Culley's Latest Articles

Three people in Shakespearean costume. On is leaning down about to drink from a bottle in a production of Sh!t-faced Shakespeare.
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Sh!t-faced Shakespeare review: boozed up Hamlet at Leicester Square

One cast member is plied with alcohol before the play begins... what can possibly go wrong?

Nina Culley

Aug 18, 2025
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Theatre review: Steel, Park Theatre, London

What would you do if you were set to inherit a life-changing sum of money?

Nina Culley

Jun 16, 2025
A swirl of abstract colours.
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Exhibition review: Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons, Dulwich Picture Gallery

Riotous colours and compositional control are the hallmarks of Rachel Jones' paintings.

Nina Culley

Jun 11, 2025
A sequence from the stage production 'The Rock 'n' Roll Alien'. Photo: Supplied.
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Performance review: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Alien, Adelphi Theatre, London

Conceptually ambitious and visually dense but tonally inconsistent and lacking a clear artistic throughline.

Nina Culley

May 30, 2025
A woman wearing a colourful pantsuit is in a wheelchair. She is screaming. In the background in the right is a police officer.
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Theatre review: Diagnosis, Finborough Theatre, London

A police procedural drama about the questioning of vulnerable people.

Nina Culley

May 19, 2025
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