Nikkole Salter

Nikkole Salter is an award winning actress, playwright, educator and arts advocate. For her work she has received the OBIE, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Global Tolerance Award from the Friends of the United Nations, a Selfdes-Kanin fellowship from the Theatre Hall of Fame, and most recently a Lily Awa rd for her contributions to the betterment of the theatre field. While she's performed internationally, on and Off-Broadway, in American regional theatre, on television and on film, her writing was being produced on 3 continents in 5 countries, published in 12 international publications, and has been featured on the WNET program "Theatre Close-Up.” She is a graduate of Howard University and NYU, and she currently teaches at Howard University's Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts where she serves as chair of the Department of Theatre Arts.