my name is nicHi.
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i am an experimental maker.
i am a performer (at heart).
i am an ARTIVIST.
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i am the 2024 Lucille Lortel Award Winner for OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR and OUTSTANDING MUSICAL for my work (pray)
i am the 2023 AUDELCO Award Winner for BEST CHOREOGRAPHY (The Cotillion)
i am a 2021 Broadway Women's Fund Woman to Watch on Broadway
i am the 2021 Princess Grace Award - Gant Gaither Theatre Honor Winner
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i have a BFA in Drama from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts,
where i am an Assistant Arts Professor in the Experimental Theater Wing.
i deeply value the opportunity i have been given to hold educational space with the students at Tisch. i am so thankful for the education i have received in my life, and pour every ounce of that gratitude into my teaching responsibilities.
i also occasionally guest lecture at Yale School of Drama.
i make experimental theater.
some traditional titles that describe what i do include director, choreographer and playwright; i like to think of myself as a Maker. and i am grateful to Ars Nova for creating space in this industry for artists like me.
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i have been dancing for over 20 years.
i have been choreographing for about that long, too.
i have a Masters in Creative Writing from The New School.
i love to be in training; learning energizes me.
i make Black theater.
this means that my target audience is Black folks.
all are welcome; Black folks are prioritized.
i am particularly proud to celebrate Black womxn & femmes in everything that i make.
i also bring a unique, Modern dance-based, story driven, movement
aesthetic to projects that I choreograph for/with other makers.
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it can't hurt to articulate again: i am an artist.
as such, i believe it is my responsibility to hold a mirror up to the world around me.
i hope my art contributes to the legacy of artists that have come before me:
Lucille Clifton
Gwendolyn Brooks
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison
Alvin Ailey
Adrienne Kennedy
Katherine Dunham
Kerry James Marshall
Ntozake Shange
Carrie Mae Weems
Nikki Giovanni
Suzan Lori Parks
Nina Simone
bell hooks
Faith Ringgold
Tracy Chapman
Meshell Ndegeocello
Sonia Sanchez
Claudia Rankine
Simone Leigh
and and and ...
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nicHi douglas resume
nicHi douglas | 973.634.7479 | ithasabigH@gmail.com
represented by Farrah Cukor | farrah.cukor@unitedtalent.com
STAGE
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(pray)
NYT Critic's Pick - 2024 Lucille Lortel Award Winner: Outstanding Director, Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Ensemble
Playwright, Director & Choreographer
Co-Composed by Starr Busby & JJJJJerome Ellis
Co-Produced by Ars Nova & National Black Theatre
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The Harriet Holland Social Club Presents the 84th Annual Star-Burst Cotillion in the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel
Choreographer (2023 AUDELCO Award Winner)
Written and Directed by Colette Robert
Co-produced by The Movement Theatre Company & New Georges
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Weightless
2023 Lortel Award nominee - Outstanding Musical
Choreographer
by The Kilbanes
Directed by Tamilla Woodard for WP Theater
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The Watering Hole
Collaborator/Choreographer
Directed by Miranda Haymon for Signature Theatre Company
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SKiNFoLK: An American Show
NYT Critic's Pick
Choreographer
Directed by Mei Ann Teo for The Bushwick Starr and presented with National Black Theatre
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where love lies fallow
Playwright, Director & Choreographer
Commissioned by The Shed for Open Call 2019;
featured in Prelude Festival 2019 and the Under The Radar Festival 2020
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Olay Live: The Road to Glow
Choreographer
Directed by Shelby Bartelstein for Olay/Gallery Media Group
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Girl From the North Country
Associate Choreographer
Directed by Conor McPherson for The Public Theater
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A Time Like This: Music for Change
Stage Director
Directed by nicHi douglas at
Carnegie Hall
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BLACK GIRL MAGIC SHOW!
“The Professor”
Written, Directed & Choreographed by nicHi douglas at Ars Nova ANT
Fest 2017 and JACK (Fall 2017)
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Primer for a Failed Superpower
Choreographer
Conceived by The TEAM and
Directed by Rachel Chavkin at Roulette
STAGE WORKSHOP
(Untitled Black Cowgirl Play)
Choreographer
Dir. Colette Robert/Long Wharf Theater
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The Second Body (A Play with Taxidermy)
Movement Director
Dir. Kate Bergstrom/La MaMa
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The Visitor
Choreographer
Dir. Dan Sullivan/The Public Theater
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(Untitled Immersive Project)
Choreographer
Dir. Jenny Koons/Denver Center
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(Untitled Dance Project)
Co-Creator
w/ Sam Pinkleton/The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep
RESIDENCIES
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Ars Nova
Vision Residency
2020-2021
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The Public Theater
Devised Theater
Working Group
2019-2020
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The New Victory Theater
LabWorks
2019-2021
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Berkeley Rep
The Ground Floor
Summer 2019
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SCREEN
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2021 Sundance Film Festival - Women's Summit: Conjuring the Collective
Co-Director with Annie Tippe
Sundance Film Festival 2021
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Untitled Mockumentary Project
Director/Executive Producer
Independent/Ars Nova
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"Be Sensitive”
“The Red Jar Tango”
“Never Settle”
Choreographer
PureWow x Olay
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Late Late Show w/ James Corden
Featured Dancer
CBS
TRAINING
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New York University, Tisch School of the Arts -- BFA, Experimental Theatre Wing
Wits University, School of the Arts -- Johannesburg, South Africa
The New School, Creative Writing Graduate Program – MFA
SPECIAL SKILLS & INTERESTS
Modern/Hip-Hop/Jazz/Tap dance and choreography, French, Spanish, basic Trumpet, Bouffon-style clown work, dialects upon request
