India Nicole Burton

About India

India Nicole Burton is a Chicago-based director, playwright, devisor, and producer. She is a native of Akron, Ohio. She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from The University of Nebraska-Omaha in 2022.

Burton 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.

Some of Burton's favorite directing credits include for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (Heads Up Productions); The Laramie Project (Heads Up 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).

Burton 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. She also received a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere for her Choreopoem titled Panther Women: An Army for the Liberation. Panther Women was Jeff recommended in Chicago and received rave reviews. Burton 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 the Program Manager at Pegasus Theatre and a Teaching Artist at The Court Theatre, both located in Chicago Illinois.