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Annina Nathanja Melliger is a Swiss-Finnish actor, dancer, writer, and script consultant. She grew up in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, where she spent her childhood and youth, and began acting at the age of six. Graduating from high school, she immigrated to her home country, Switzerland and lived in various cities in Europe. She completed her Bachelor of Arts and her Master of Arts in English Language and Literature and in History, with a thesis on Shakespeare, the body in performance, and human trafficking. She also holds a tertiary diploma as an Upper Secondary School educator in English.

Training briefly with the Royal Shakespeare Company, at the USC, and with Diane Venora and Transformation Artists in Los Angeles in acting, she also trained in various styles of dance for over a decade, ranging from Latin and Ballroom to Contemporary and Freestyle. Studying in California for three years, she studied the sozo method for inner healing, which she believes is a key for artists, and attended Bethel Conservatory of the Arts for Acting, studying the Dream Circle Technique, Uta Hagen, and Meisner. She has also studied Ivana Chubbuck’s Technique in the Chubbuck Studio Berlin.

Throughout the years, she has worked alongside various NGOs addressing the legal and social elements of human trafficking and assisting its victims, and became keenly aware of the human rights abuses entrenched on the streets, in brothels, and online. She aims to use theatre, dance, and the arts to bring transformation to those caught in patterns of abuse of power or impacted by various degrees of trauma.

She is currently based in Europe, located in Zurich, where she is exploring the connection between the performing arts, human rights, and trauma, and continuously furthering her acting training. She is a script editor and consultant in arts and human rights and is working on a project to bring embodied transformation through dance and impact productions.