Miwa Nagura McCormick

Board Member

Miwa Nagura McCormick has been working in TV production in NYC for over 25 years, mainly for NHK and NHK World, as a director, producer, video editor, researcher, and coordinator, covering arts, education, technology, and environmental issues in a variety of formats from documentaries and ELL programs to news features. She's established herself as a visual storyteller and is particularly drawn to stories that address disability inclusion lately.

Originally from Tokyo, Japan, she spent one year at UC Berkeley as an exchange student to study molecular biology, where she also took a daily modern dance class in the dance department founded by former Graham company members. After graduating from International Christian University (BA in biology) in Tokyo, she moved to NYC. She enrolled in a master's program in individualized studies (focusing on Performance Studies) on the Rotary Foundation Scholarship at New York University. The excerpt from her master's thesis was published in the book "Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance." 

In NYC, she continued her dance training with David Storey, Lynn Simonson, Laurie DeVito, Diane McCarthy, and Tee Ross, among others, and performed in various choreographies. She is also a certified Simonson technique dance teacher.

From 2017 to 2020, she was a board member of an award-winning elementary school chess team, Manhattan Knights, and managed the team to compete at city, state, and national levels.