India Nicole Burton is a Chicago director, playwright, devisor and producer. She is a native of Akron, OH. She received her MFA in creative writing from The University of Nebraska-Omaha in 2022. India founded Ma’Sue Productions, an African American theatre company located in Akron, Ohio in 2011. She has directed, produced, and performed in several of Ma’Sue’s plays and was co-artistic director until 2015. .India’s directing credits include for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (Heads Up Productions), The Laramie Project (Heads Up Productions), Daybreak’s Children (Ma’Sue Productions), A Happening on Imperial (Ma’Sue Productions) Fire on the Water (Cleveland Public Theatre, co-directed; Panther Women: An Army for the Liberation (in development at Cleveland Public Theatre), “inside out” by Francisca Da Silveira (Company One, as part of their C1: Inauguration project) Welcome to the Taj Mahal ( Motel) By Riti Sachdeva, The Playwrights Center ( Workshop) and Can I Touch it? (Cleveland Public Theatre) and Panther Women: An Army for the Liberation ( Cleveland Public Theatre.) India’s assistant directing credits include the 2014 production of The Color Purple at Karamu House, A Brownsville song (b-side for tray) at Dobama Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre’s Barbecue and Good at Heart, featured in BorderLight International Theatre + Fringe Festival. India is a board member for New World Performance Lab, a two-year recipient of the National New Play Network ( NNPN) Producer in Residence program for Cleveland Public Theatre and a 2021 recipient of the NNPN Bridge Program Grant Award. She also received a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere for her Choreopoem entitled Panther Women: An Army for the Liberation. Panther Women was Jeff recommended in Chicago 2023. India was also a cast member of American Dreams, which was nominated for a Drama League Award in 2021. She was a Room in the Mu 2021/22 Fellow at The Karamu House inc. India is Currently the Associate Producer/ Teaching Artist at Pegasus Theatre and a Teaching Artist a Court Theatre.