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Brittani Nichols
American comedian and actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brittani Nichols (born June 20, 1988)[1] is an American producer, actress, comedian, and writer.[2] In 2016, Nichols wrote, produced, and starred in the film Suicide Kale, which won the Audience Award for Best U.S. Dramatic Feature at 2016 Outfest. She has written for the television programs A Black Lady Sketch Show, Take My Wife, Strangers, and Drop the Mic.[3] Nichols is a writer and producer for Abbott Elementary and won the Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series award at the 54th NAACP Image Awards for the episode "Student Transfer".[4][5] As part of the producing team of Abbott Elementary, Nichols was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2023 and 2024.[6]
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Nichols moved to Los Angeles after college and developed the web series Words With Girls (2012), which she later rewrote as a full-length pilot that was produced by Issa Rae and Deniese Davis's initiative ColorCreative.tv.[7][8][9] The series centered a group of queer twenty-something roommates in LA and starred Nichols, Corbin Reid, Hannah Hart, Alex Sturman, and Lauren Neal.[9]
In 2016, Nichols wrote, produced, and starred in Suicide Kale, a dark comedy with an all queer-woman cast.[10] Nichols stated in an interview that she set out to make a lesbian movie that "wasn’t about coming out, sleeping with a man, or a character death at the end".[11] Both Words with Girls and Suicide Kale draw on Nichols' own experiences as a lesbian, and she has stated repeatedly in interviews that she is committed to increasing LGBTQ and African-American representation in media.[12] Suicide Kale won the Audience Award for Best U.S. Dramatic Feature at Outfest.[3]
She has appeared in several television programs including A Black Lady Sketch Show, Take My Wife, and Transparent.[13][10] Nichols was a writer for season one of the HBO series A Black Lady Sketch Show.[14] She has also written for Strangers, Drop the Mic, and Take My Wife.[15] She served as consulting producer for The Circle and Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.
In 2020, it was announced that Nichols would produce a dramedy, Toothbrush, for Quibi through ColorCreative; however Quibi went out of business before the show was created.[16][17]
She is a writer and producer for the ABC comedy Abbott Elementary.[18] Nichols signed with CAA in 2022.[19][20]
Other work
In 2016, she released a five-track EP, Brittani Nichols Likes You.[2] Nichols previously co-hosted two podcasts, Brand New Podcast with Ariana Lenarsky, and Hamilton the Podcast with Khalehla Rixon.[21] Nichols also is a Captain for Writers Guild of America West and spoke on behalf of members during the 2023 writers strike.[22]
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Personal life
Nichols was born in Chicago.[23] After attending Thornwood High School, she attended Yale University, where she played on the women's basketball team and women's rugby team.[1]
She is gay and genderqueer.[24] She supported Hugo Soto-Martinez and Eunisses Hernandez during the 2022 Los Angeles elections.[25][26]
Accolades
- 2024 – Out100, Storytellers
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