Nina Culley

Nina Culley is a writer and critic based between London and Naarm. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Kill Your Darlings, Liminal, Griffith Review, Mascara Review, and more. She writes regularly on theatre, literature, and the arts for Time Out, Limelight, and ArtsHub. In 2024, she was named one of Mascara Review’s Emerging Critics, and she is a 2025 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow. Nina has previously worked as an Editorial Assistant at Kill Your Darlings.

Nina Culley's Latest Articles

Two panels. On the left is Yves Rees, with short blonde hair and a dark top. On the right is the cover of their book, 'Travelling to Tomorrow' with an illustration of a woman in shades of orange and blue.
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Book review: Travelling to Tomorrow, Yves Rees

The stories of pioneering Australian women who sought adventures across the Pacific a century ago.

Nina Culley

Oct 10, 2024
Two panels: Left is author Katerina Gibson who ha short dark hair. She is wearing a singlet and standing in front of a pale painting that has an image of a skull and a close up eye. The right panel is the cover of her book, with 'The Temperature' broken up against a swirly, multi-coloured background and a shadow of a person.
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Book review: The Temperature, Katerina Gibson

Six characters whose lives intersect in a novel that takes the pulse of the times.

Nina Culley

Sep 4, 2024
Two panels. On the left is a profile photo of a Caucasian woman with glasses and grey hair wearing a light blue top. On the right is the cover of a book with 'Val McDermid' in yellow font and 'Queen Macbeth' in red font. In the middle is a red rose and a gold trellis of leaves around it.
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Book review: Queen Macbeth, Val McDermid

A revisionist account that focuses on Lady Macbeth rather than her husband.

Nina Culley

Jul 29, 2024
Two panels. On left is of a man with dark hair wearing a grey jumper. He is smilling. On the right is cover of a book with the words 'R.E.Generation' set against a forest background.
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Book review: R.E.Generation, Michael Prewer

A dystopian novel that sees climate change erase mammalian life forms. What now?

Nina Culley

Jul 10, 2024
A table laden with food and candles.
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Theatre review: Perpetual Stew, Midsumma Festival

Bite-sized stories served at dinner.

Nina Culley

Feb 7, 2024
overflow. A woman stands next to a basin in a graffitied club toilet. She is wearing a fishnet top and short black skirt and preening for the camera.
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Performance review: Overflow, Arts Centre Melbourne

A discomforting but illuminating exploration of the trans and gender-diverse experience.

Nina Culley

Feb 5, 2024
Slippery. Image is three white faced clowns (one of whom is bearded and bald) with big ruffs and hearts on the front of their gowns.
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Theatre review: Slippery, The Butterfly Club, Midsumma Festival

Mayhem ensues when a polyamorous love square becomes a triangle and one of the lovers returns as a ghost to…

Nina Culley

Jan 25, 2024
The Long Pigs. Image is a darkly malevolent clown, sporting a black nose and brandishing a cleaver.
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Theatre review: The Long Pigs, Theatre Works

Darkly funny, this production pits black nose clowns against their cheery red nose counterparts.

Nina Culley

Dec 4, 2023
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Musical review: Dogfight, Chapel Off Chapel

What does a contemporary stage adaptation of this 90s movie about misogyny and sexual politics look like?

Nina Culley

Nov 14, 2023
In the Club. Image is a theatre set of a dark smoky club with a black and red striped bench seat and a young man sitting with a young woman on his knee.
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Theatre review: In the Club, Theatre Works

Patricia Cornelius' play tackles consent, coercion and sexual violence in the AFL.

Nina Culley

Nov 9, 2023
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