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Nicolette Bethel

Nicolette Bethel is a playwright, director and producer and a founder of the Shakespeare in Paradise theatre festival in Nassau, The Bahamas.

Nicolette Bethel was born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas and has studied and worked in the UK and Canada. As a playwright, poet, fiction writer and anthropologist, she is founder and Festival Director of Shakespeare in Paradise and Chair of the Dundas Centre for the Performing Arts in Nassau, Bahamas.

Three people on stage, one standing directly under a spotlight.
A Song of Ourselves: Playing out the Pandemic in The Bahamas
Essay

A Song of Ourselves: Playing out the Pandemic in The Bahamas

1 February 2022

Nicolette Bethel reflects on the creation and significance of Competent Authority, a play that focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic in The Bahamas.