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...outset, Nair did pursue her passion for theater, starring in a Puerto Rican adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone. In her first semester at Harvard, she won the Boylston Prize for her delivery of one of Jocasta’s speeches from Oedipus...
...rapidly discovered that Harvard theater was too staid and conventional for her experimental taste. “It was like Oklahoma! played forever, and I had no relationship to hoopskirts,” Nair says of the Harvard theater scene...
...academics, she turned to sociology, in which she earned her A.B. degree. But a portfolio of landscape photographs, which she had taken as a summer school student, also gained Nair entrance into the expanding VES department, then capped at 10 students per year...
...says she found photography, however, too distant and impersonal a medium. Nair then experimented in making films under the tutelage of the Hooker Professor of Visual Arts Alfred Guzzetti and MIT’s Richard Leacock, who are considered among the founders of Cinema Verite, in their documentary film classes...
...their film classes that Nair found her niche, she says. And her professors quickly recognized her talent...