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about nicHi douglas

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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RESUME

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

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

STAGE WORKSHOP

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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RESIDENCIES

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 

SCREEN

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 

TRAINING
SPECIAL SKIILS & INTERESTS
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