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{{Short description|Nepalese actor}}
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| birth_place = [[Kathmandu]]
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| known_for = Chancellor of the [[Nepal Academy of Music and Drama]]
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| spouse = [[Sunil Pokharel]]
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'''Nisha Sharma Pokharel''' (born 2 September 1971) is a [[Nepal]]ese actor. In 2023 she was chosen as the first woman Chancellor of the Nepal Academy of Music and Drama.

==Life==
Sharma was born in 1971 in [[Kathmandu]].{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} She met [[Sunil Pokharel]] and Badri Adhikari while she was still at school. They had cast her sister as the lead in their production and they wanted a girl to play her sister. She was cast despite her sister's worries that the job would distract her from her studies.<ref name=topjob/>

She has had a career of more than thirty years in Nepali theatre and she has appeared in about fifty different productions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nisha Sharma {{!}} Theatricalia |url=https://theatricalia.com/person/2hz4/nisha-sharma |access-date=5 April 2024 |website=theatricalia.com}}</ref>

In 2010 the South Asian Women's Theatre Festival took place in Delhi and several plays were staged.<ref>{{Cite web |title=South Asian Women’s Theatre Festival, LEELA – South Asia Women's Network (SWAN) |url=https://www.swaninterface.net/south-asian-womens-theatre-festival-leela/ |access-date=5 April 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref> Sharma played the main character of Nora in a Nepali adaptation of Henry Ibsen's feminist play [[A Doll's House]]. The translated play, ''Putaliko Ghar'', had been adapted by [[Sunil Pokharel]] from Henry Ibsen's original. The play was seen by Nepali nationals or those with a Nepali heritage. The important theme of the play is that Nora finally gives up on her husband in order that she can have her own life.<ref name=play>{{Cite web |date=14 March 2010 |title=Nora walks out |url=https://wagle.com.np/2010/03/14/nora-walks-out/ |access-date=5 April 2024 |website=Dinesh Wagle on Nepali Society |language=en}}</ref>

In 2023 she was chosen as the Chancellor of the [[Nepal Academy of Music and Drama]] (NAMUDA). She was promoted from Head of Drama in a move that surprised her. She became NAMUDA's first woman Chancellor.<ref name=topjob/> She took the oath of office on 16 February 2024 together with two other chancellors in a ceremony with the Prime Minister [[Pushpa Kamal Dahal]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Collaboration is a must to develop music, drama: Nisha Sharma |url=https://risingnepaldaily.com/news/23638 |access-date=5 April 2024 |website=GorakhaPatra}}</ref> She identified the need for the academy to establish an international position and she also planned to create a library of Nepali folk music and plays. The job was important and she set aside other commitments to concentrate on this role for the four years of her term.<ref name=topjob>{{Cite web |last=DHODARI |first=JANUKA |date=19 February 2023 |title='Beyond my dreams' |url=https://thehimalayantimes.com/lifestyle/beyond-my-dreams |access-date=5 April 2024 |website=The Himalayan Times |language=en}}</ref>

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