Nicole with Issa Rae in the Oscar-winning film American Fiction. Photo courtesy of Orion Pictures.
BIO
Born in Worcester, MA, Nicole began her acting career performing in local children’s theaters, camps, and community theater productions. She studied theater at Providence College and got her first professional acting credit in a summer stock production of Good News the summer before graduation. After booking a commercial in Boston rollerblading at the Esplanade, she moved to Boston, did a summer of study with the Moscow Art Theater in Cambridge, and began her professional acting career. Five years later, with credits from Trinity Rep (My Fair Lady), the Huntington (Company), Lyric Stage (Assassins), Wheelock Family Theater (Kiss Me Kate), Rochester Opera House (The Sound of Music), American Stage Festival (A Christmas Carol, Jerry Finnegan’s Sister, Steel Magnolias), Worcester Foothills Theater (Death of a Salesman), Jewish Theater of New England (Last Night of Ballyhoo), and the Public Theater (Italian American Reconciliation), she moved to New York City.
In New York City, she received her MA in Interdisciplinary Studies at the Gallatin School at NYU, studying all aspects of theater—acting, directing, choreography, playwriting, and performance studies—and how they intersected with sociology. During that time, she trained with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company in Viewpoints and Suzuki, and began directing, choreographing, writing, and teaching, in addition to acting.
In New York, she appeared in two incarnations of the 24Hour Plays at the Atlantic Theater, The Best of the 24Hour Plays at the Lucille Lortel Theater, multiple devised works, numerous readings, live and filmed dance performances with the dance company Bollywood Axion, and many New Media projects.
Currently, she works in both Boston and New York and can be seen in the Oscar-winning film (and trailer for) American Fiction in a scene opposite Issa Rae.