Nora Amin is an author, performer, choreographer, theater director and scholar/researcher/lecturer. She is a Fellow of the Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed, Rio de Janeiro, the founder/artistic director of Lamusica Independent Theatre group, and of The Nation-wide Egyptian Project for Theatre of the Oppressed and its Arab network. She is also a fellow of: the Academy of the Arts of the World in Köln, the International Research Centre for Interweaving Performance Cultures at FU, Valeska-Gert guest professor for dance sciences, S. Fischer guest professor at the institute of general & comparative literature at FU, expert/consultant at Performing Arts Berlin (The association of the Independent Performing Arts), advisor for the ITI academy for curation and festival making, and former mentor at Flausen+bundesnetzwerk. Amin is a board member of the German Centre of the International Theatre Institute, a member of the scientific committee of Barba Varley Foundation, and of the conference/festival Performing Tangiers. She as an alumnae of the arts management program at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and a former visiting lecturer at the department of cultural policy at Hildesheim University, as well as at the Department of Theatre at Mount Holyoke College (USA).