Νίκα Мавроди sat on the jury of the FACETS International Children's Film Festival before matriculating on scholarship to Akiba Schechter where she was taught to write fiction in tandem with fielding plot synopsis. From there educated at Chicago Public Schools, she was a beta tester for TransLumen's Fluid Stills technology. In addition to participating in Steppenwolf as a youth playwright also staging work at Chopin Theatre through Around the Coyote, her fiction was recognized by Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Then I went to university to join the Met's college program — accepting internships at Helen Whitney Productions, Lehmann Maupin, and Triangle Arts Association while studying full-time and working as a barista upon meeting Andrea Grant who is a poet and comic book writer. Eventually we were launching editorial on The Fashion Spot, a vBulletin website as of 2002 (Nora and I had been odnaklassniki with one of its constituents). Skipping graduation albeit thanks to my contract Grant advocated for, I pursued an interest in publishing being a market enterprise simultaneously following higher ed in parallel until lockdowns were imposed. She is completing her feature-length sonic drama for audiobook channels and preparing to shop a musical; Our Rabbinical FanFic will be released Spring 2026. Pulitzer Prize-winning theater critic Margo Jefferson said I am funny!... my undergraduate application failed to submit the requisite creative portfolio.