Nikkole Salter

Nikkole Salter is a Los Angeles-born, OBIE Award-winning actress and writer. Nikkole arrived onto the professional scene with her co-authorship and co-performance of the Pulitzer Prize nominated play, In the Continuum. She was most recently in Mud Row at People’s Light and in the Broadway production of The Great Society. As a dramatist, she has written 8 full-length plays, been commissioned for full-length work by 6 institutions, been produced on 3 continents in 5 countries, and been published in 12 international publications. She made her directorial debut at Baltimore Center Stage with Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill.

She is a chairman of the Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship program, and a founding board member of the NJ Play Lab. She currently serves as Chair of the Board of Arts Workers United. She received her BFA in theatre from Howard University and her MFA from New York University’s Graduate Acting Program. She is currently teaching and serving as the Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts within Howard University’s Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts. nikkolesalter.com