Nikkole Salter

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Hailed by Variety as “thoroughly convincing”, 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. As an actress, Miss Salter can be seen in Nate Taylor's upcoming feature film “Forgetting the Girl”, and heard as the voice of LaTicia in Rockstar Games' video game release, Midnight Club: Los Angeles. 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 of the Blackboard Reading Series at The Cell Theatre Company. Her most recent screenplay, tentatively titled "Father Figure" - a dramatic thriller about the impact of an absentee father - was developed in part through a residency at Hedgebrook, a women's writer's colony in Seattle, Wa. Most recently, Ms. Salter played the role of Taylor in Lydia Diamond's play STICK FLY (directed by Kenny Leon) at Arena Stage (Washington, DC) and the Huntington Theatre (Boston, MA) from Jan 1 - Feb 7 and Feb 19 - Mar 27, 2010 respectively.