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Nikkole Salter

NIKKOLE SALTER

  
Nationality:    African American
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Literary Agent:    Bret Adams Ltd  represented by Alexis Williams

As a dramatist, Ms. Salter has written 6 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. Her work has appeard in over 20 Off-Broadway, regional and international theatres, and the Crossroads Theatre production of her play REPAIRING A NATION (directed by Marshall Jones) has been taped for the WNET program "Theatre Close-Up", to airied on NYC's channel THIRTEEN, WLIC, NJTV, and streamed on the internet beginning fall 2015. Ms. Salter is a 2014 MAP Fund Grant recipient, a Eugene O'Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist, a two time Playwright's of New York (PoNY) Fellowship nominee, is currently working on commissions from Woolly Mammoth, the University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill, and was selected to write the screen adaptation of Claude Brown's New York Times Bestselling novel, Manchild in the Promised Land.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Nikkole Salter's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Carnaval         Freedom Riders         In the Continuum         Keepers         Lines In The Dust         Of Great Merit         Princess And The Paparazzi, The         Repairing A Nation         Torn Asunder

Carnaval

Synopsis:
Three young Afro-Americans, Raheem, Demetrius and Jalani, go to Brazil on a sex tourism holiday. Trouble starts when Jalani assaults a prostitute who has stolen his money. The police are called and they find Jalani's stash of pornography. All three are arrested for possession of pornography with the intent to sell

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Freedom Riders

Synopsis:
academia to embrace her with open arms. But when she is accused of playing the race card with her work and career as a strategy to get ahead, she has to find a way, like her inspiration - 19th century artist Robert S. Duncanson - to transcend it all and prove the merit of her work.

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written by Kathleen McGhee Anderson, Murray Horwitz, Nathan Louis Jackson, and Nikkole Salter

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Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre    01 May 2015

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UMKC Theatre

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true drama

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In the Continuum

Synopsis:
In the Continuum puts a human face on the devastating impact of AIDS in Africa and America through the lives of two unforgettably courageous women. Living worlds apart, one in South Central LA and the other in Zimbabwe, each experience a kaleidoscopic weekend of life changing revelations in this story of parallel deniels and self-discoveries

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written by Danai Gurira And Nikkole Salter

1st Produced:
Primary Stages, NY, USA    11 Sep 2005

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Keepers

Synopsis:
Sometime shortly after 2014, after the social destruction of the world, after the Mike Brown murder in Ferguson, MO, USA, two people, struggling to survive with mangled resources drawn from their limited historic energy, search to restore a working knowledge of Self to fuel their push toward free, safe, dignified and sustainable living.

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1st Produced:
10 minute play festival 48 Hours in Harlem, NY    17 Aug 2014

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Harlem 9

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ten min play

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Lines In The Dust

Synopsis:
2010, Essex County, NJ. When Denitra loses the charter school lottery for her daughter, she must find another way to escape from their underperforming neighborhood school. The answer seems like a risk well worth taking, but may end up requiring a bigger sacrifice than she ever could have imagined. It's been over a half-century since Brown Versus The Board of Education. LINES IN THE DUST questions how far we've come and more importantly, where we go from here.

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Luna Stage, NJ, USA >>>    09 Oct 2014

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Of Great Merit

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Newly doctored Michelle Parker is at

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Monologue play

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Princess And The Paparazzi, The

Synopsis:
2013, NYC. Hurricane season. When emerging R&B Star Prince Ade returns from his stint on a reality television dating show empty-handed, his 1970's famous disco queen mother thinks he will finally give up his quest for a bride. But when a hurricane traps them in their penthouse suite, the officer who comes to the rescue poses more of a threat to Queen than the impending hurricane ever did.

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Based on the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Princess and the Pea

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Genre:
one act adaptation

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Repairing A Nation

Synopsis:
2001. The Davis family meets for what should be a fun holiday season in their native Tulsa,OK. But when Lois insists the family join a class-action law suit for reparations, old family wounds are ripped open and we discover that the government isn't the only one being asked to apologize. 80 years after the Tulsa Race Riots, REPAIRING A NATION explores the complexity of inherited wounds, the nature of apology and the possibility of reconciliation.

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Crossroads Theatre Company in New Brunswick, NJ    26 Feb 2015

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Torn Asunder

Synopsis:
a prestigious fellowship, she expects the world of

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Based on the research of Prof. Heather Andrea Williams. (Commissioned by Prof. Heather Andrea Williams and Prof. Kathy Perkins)

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