Hannah Nikka Odsinada is a storyteller.

Hannah (she/they) has worked throughout the Pacific Northwest as an opera librettist, lyricist/poet, actor, and studio musician. Her chamber operas Chop Chop! and A Stranger at the Door were commissioned and premiered in concert by Seattle Opera, where she was a librettist in the ‘21-23 Cohort of the Jane Lang Davis Creation Lab.

On other stages, Hannah plays acoustic guitar and sings backing vocals for singer-songwriter Elizabeth Anne. Their own solo project, Crying Mary, is in utero but inevitable.

She holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Central Washington University, where she performed with CWU Opera and studied voice with Dr. Gayla Bauer-Blaisdell. In their teens, they performed with award-winning musical theatre companies in Portland, OR, studied abroad at the West End, and sang for former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama with St. Mary’s Academy’s Marian Singers. She is a member of Opera America, Maestra, Dramatist’s Guild, New Play Exchange, Artist Trust, and Theatre Puget Sound.

Influenced by their education in voice, their libretto has been described as imaginative, woman-centered, and “ripe for a stage.” Her goal is to broaden audiences’ understanding of opera, toying with structures and genres not commonly seen on the opera stage, and to create joyfully.

Hannah is based in Seattle, where she manages a music education program and lives with her partner, Andrew, and their two silly cats, Henry and Luci.