Into the world of Nike Imoru; ZNation Cast Director.

Nike Imoru is a British casting director, acting coach, actress and director with an array of credits in the entertainment industry covering twenty five years and twenty one countries.  For the last decade Nike has worked in the Northwest casting   commercials, industrial videos, documentaries, theatre and, in the last six years, twenty full-length feature films.  She has worked alongside a plethora of actors and directors including Wayne Wang, John Carpenter, Tony Krantz, Samuel Jackson, Ray Liotta, Wei Tang, Antonio Banderas, Amber Heard, Jimmy Simpson, Vera Farmiga, Tom Skerrit. She is passionate about the process of casting and demonstrates an intelligent   and intuitive ability to “understand the actor, any actor, from any culture”.

Her first love is the actor.

Alongside her work as a casting director, Nike is also a Master acting coach. She partners with actors to develop and create unique content specific to their emotional and psychological needs. She is unswerving and   committed to developing   a rich source of diverse and skilled talent for the Northwest entertainment industries.

Nike is a classically-trained, award-winning actress,with a stack of national and international acting credits ranging from BBC Radio 4 to Public Radio; from The Royal  National Theatre Studios in London, to The Getty Museum in LA; from her seminal one-woman performance of Medea in Delphi, Greece;  to her critically-acclaimed portrayal of Shakespeare’s most villainous male antagonist, Aaron the Moor, in Titus Andronicus (2012) for which she was awarded Outstanding Classical Actress, (Footlight Award, Seattle Times) Best Featured Actress (Critics Choice Award, Broadway World) and Excellence in Performance (Gypsy Rose Lee Award).  In academe she has taught hundreds of student-actors globally. She has collaborated and shared the stage with some of the most illustrious figures in theatre and performance history, including Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. She gained her PhD from the University of Warwick, UK and was overjoyed to have her doctoral thesis added to the British Museum Library in 2012. Nike is a member of Actors Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA and the Casting Society of America.