Nikkole Salter
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Hailed by Variety as “thoroughly convincing”, Los Angeles-born, OBIE Award-winning actress and writer Nikkole Salter exploded onto the professional scene with her co-authorship and co-performance of the wildly successful play, In the Continuum (ITC). For its Off-Broadway run and international tour, ITC received an OBIE Award (2006), and the NY Outer Critics Circle's John Gassner Award for Best New American Play (2006) to name a few of its many accolades. Miss Salter also received Helen Hayes and Black Theatre Alliance nominations for Best Actress for her performance. ITC, published by Samuel French, was pronounced - by New York Times, Newsday and New York Magazine - as one of the best plays of 2005 and was featured in numerous esteemed media outlets including Essence Magazine, American Theatre Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and NPR’s Leonard Lopate Show. Also as an actress, Miss Salter can be seen in Nate Taylor's feature film “Forgetting the Girl”, and heard as the voice of LaTicia in Rockstar Games' video game release, Midnight Club: Los Angeles. In 2011, Ms. Salter received an IRNE award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in STICK FLY, directed by Kenny Leon. Ms. Salter’s play, REPAIRING A NATION, a funny family dramedy about the essence of reparations and the complexity of inheritance, received its first reading through a partnership with the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Target™Sunday initiative and was a the featured work with readings at The Cell Theatre Company's BlackBoard Reading Series in NYC and at Luna Stage's New Moon Reading Series. Her most recent written work, CARNAVAL, is scheduled to be read at Blackboard on April11th and at Luna Stage on June 6th. Miss Salter was most recently seen performing the role of 'Nella' in Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder's GEE'S BEND, a production directed by Derrick Sanders at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, which was nominated for 3 Acclaim Awards. Coming up, Miss Salter can be see performing the role of Lavita in Naked Angels' production of Bekah Brunstetter's A LONG & HAPPY LIFE, directed by Pippin Parker at Playwright's Horizons.